Like any aesthetic response or any judgment about taste, a mixture of associational and direct factors is involved.
Furthermore, the highest level of aesthetic response occurs in the middle level of complexity.
It is striking that there was this shift from principle to aesthetic response as the war progressed.
A committed critic writes from a social, nationalist or political conviction, which interacts with an aesthetic response to a work of art.
He described this aesthetic response as the bed-rock of conservative criticism.
Social and cultural contexts help shape aesthetic responses.
This is different from a simple aesthetic response such as saying a certain place is special because it is beautiful.
What you call an aesthetic response is invariably more complicated than that, a product of many of our ideas.
The first stage, aesthetic response, is an emotional reaction to noticing an attractive face or figure.
