>Aesthetics takes the work of art as an object, the object of aisthesis, of sensuous apprehension in the wide sense. Today we call this apprehension experience. The way in which man experiences art is taken to provide information as to its essence. Experience is the source that is the standard not only for art appreciation and enjoyment but also for artistic creation. Yet perhaps experience is the element in which art dies. The dying occurs so slowly that is takes a few centuries.
What did he mean by this?
That if the creation of art stems from the experience of art, and its essence(s), then there is a limited number of essences as there is a limited number of experiences.
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Art as aesthetics is leveled into a present at hand thing to be experienced as an object. This is in stark contrast to art as what it really is according to Heidegger, pure disclosedness of Being constantly held open in illuminated unconcealment, what the Greeks grasped at. The death then lies in the falling away of the possibility of the art as truth (aletheia) reciprocal to the rise of art as Thing Experienced.