Introduction: Aesthetic experience -- Serenity: Barnett Newman's Vir heroicus sublimis -- Clarity: Glenn Gould's Goldberg (1981) -- Equanimity: Wordsworth's We are seven -- Fragility: the architecture of wonder.
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In the face of a great work of art, we so often stand mute, struck dumb. Countering contemporary assumptions that art is valued only according to taste or ideology, Peter De Bolla gives a voice - and vocabulary - to the wonder art can inspire.