Encountering Art: Different Facets of the Esthetic Experience

In 1999, Kyoto's Miho Museum, designed by I.M. Pei, hosted an international symposium to investigate the meaning of the esthetic experience. Moderated by David Finn, six participants—artists, critics, curators—provided personal accounts of encountering great works of art. This book, with forty-five color photographs illustrating the participants' choices, is the result. The Miho Museum owns a collection of more than one thousand ancient masterpieces from the Near and Far East, and each year hosts a symposium to explore the relationships between religion, spirituality, and art.