Expanding Horizons: Rethinking Aesthetics through the Prism of the Human Body and Cultural Psychology

Abstract

A wide variety of biological as well as phenomenological conceptions of artwork have emerged as a result of growing recognition of the vital and intricate position that the body plays in creating and appreciating art. These contemporary concepts of artwork are linked to aesthetics' pre-Kantian roots as the study of perspective on circumstances (aesthesis) and emotion by their common focus on the body's activity. This paper investigates the collaborative concern of numerous thinkers, in artwork as an unconscious, non-linguistic manner of understanding, representing, and experiencing the world. It accomplishes this by identifying contemporary perspectives. This study states that although a few hypotheses based on biology have legitimately highlighted the possible significance of artwork in human evolution, its simplified patterns must be rectified and augmented by an experiential and 'symbolic' method that places art within a network of affective experiences with the world controlled by culture within a larger context that gives it purpose.