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Empirical aesthetics

Dissanayake's view of art as a human behaviour of making things special, setting them apart from the ordinary through shaping and elaboration.

In empirical aesthetics, making special refers to dissanayake's view of art as a human behaviour of making things special, setting them apart from the ordinary through shaping and elaboration. This meaning comes from Dissanayake (1992) in Homo aestheticus.[1]

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  1. Dissanayake, E. (1992). Homo aestheticus. Free Press. ISBN 9780295745541

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