Author: Vernon Lee
Publisher: LaMicro
ISBN: 9788494134289
Binding: hardcover
Pages: 116
Format: 16.5 x 12 cm
Spanish Language
«The words beauty and beautiful have played a critical role throughout my life. I want to make it clear that, at least in relation to the visual arts, the pleasure and meaning I assigned to these terms had very little to do with the aesthetic characteristics of the objects as I now perceive them.»
[Vernon Lee, “Psychology of an Art Writer (personal observations),” 1903]
When we look for words to express the rapture, pleasure, disgust or repulsion that an aesthetic experience provokes in us, Vernon Lee appears as an example. This anthology is, in a way, a tribute to that exaltation of emotions that permeates his research on aesthetics.
From among its more than forty multifaceted volumes, this selection brings together five essays written between 1897 and 1918 that start from the autobiographical to reach the theoretical and cover topics as diverse as the role of modern art, the experience of the landscape, the variety of musical perceptions or the value of reading.
