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Semir Zeki, the neurobiologist, has written that the term "significant configuration" may be a better choice since, by Bell's definition, "significant form" is restricted to lines and colours whereas "significant configuration" is broader and may include features such as faces or bodies which must
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As Bell put it succinctly: "The important thing about a picture, however, is not how it is painted, but whether it provokes aesthetic emotion."
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in its viewer, a quality he termed "significant form." Bell's definition explicitly separated significant form from
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Bell postulated that for an object to be deemed a work of art it required potential to provoke
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have a significant configuration to be recognized as such.
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which specified a set of criteria for what qualified as a
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aesthetic theory
Clive Bell
work of art
aesthetic emotion
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"Significant form – Art Term"
"Clive Bell | British critic"
Introducing Aesthetics
ISBN
9780275979072
Text of Art, p. 17. Gutenberg Project
"Clive Bell's "Significant Form" and the neurobiology of aesthetics"
doi
10.3389/fnhum.2013.00730
ISSN
1662-5161
PMC
3824150
PMID
24273502
Text of Art Gutenberg Project
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