What is an exhibition? Dealing with how people experience art, artistic works, making art and the appreciation of things, via a contextualisation of Allen Carlson and Emmanuel Kant aesthetic ideas and 21st century art theory.

Abstract

This written thesis is an observation on Allen Carlson, and Emmanuelle Kant’s aesthetic theories alongside and observation of art and the everyday. The main focus of the research is to gain a better understanding surrounding these topic matters, concerning our experience of art in relation to the experience of our surrounding. As such does our experience become affected when participating in specific activates.