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Preferred term

Absorption, aesthetics  

Definition

  • The idea that in certain works of art the awareness of the "beholder" is deliberately removed, due to the artist's depiction of the subject as totally absorbed by what he or she is doing

Notation

  • 120892

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-BS6GHVT5-8

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