Varieties of Aesthetic Experience Jeffrey M. Green sitting at the counter of

sitting at the counter of Cody's Books in Berkeley in the early 1970s

Written by a world-renowned expert on beaches

to a twenty-year-old woman who writes of reanimated corpses

w hose theories and methods laid the foundation for the discip line

and notices that a bully has taken over

Varieties of Aesthetic Experience Jeffrey M. Green sitting at the counter ofTone Roald creates a new foundation for aesthetics by taking seriously real life experiences with works of art. Relying upon descriptions of experiences with art in the autobiographical and literary texts of St. Augustine, Denis Diderot, Stendahl, Virginia Woolf, and Proust, as well as fifteen years' worth of interviews with museumgoers about their most intense experiences with visual arts, Roald explores the variety of aesthetic experiences available