Pleasure Of Beholding: The Visitor's Museum, original wrapped, never opened
What would museums be without their visitors?
What does the spectators creativity consist in?
What is the mystery concealed behind a work of art?
How is it that the art of now appears so strange to its contemporaries?
In The Pleasure of Beholding, Eulaia Bosch proposes to look "aloud" at art and the experience of visiting a museum. Drawing both from the history of aesthetics and from her own empirical experience as a museum curator and teacher, Bosch leads her readers through a series of mediations on the questions that we ask ourselves -- implicitly and explicitly -- when we behold a work of art. .............
