aesthetic distance
(US esthetic distance)
noun
A sense or degree of emotional detachment considered integral to (and necessary for) dispassionate appreciation of the creative arts.
- Some artists (especially dramatists) have proposed methods designed to engender aesthetic distance in the viewer: see alienation effect..
Origin
Early 20th century; earliest use found in Journal of Philosophical, Psychological and Scientific Methods.
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