a work of art and inspires insight into that to which it seems to refer. Why aesthetics functions this way is connected to subjective yet organized experience. Langer cites "aesthetic emotion" as an
effect of artistic labor, the personal emotive experience of revelation, insight, mental power, which an adventure in "implicit understanding" inspires . . . [T]he emotion springs from the one activity which the artist and the beholder share in unequal parts--the comprehension of an unspoken idea. . . . "Aesthetic pleasure," then, is akin to (though not identical with) the satisfaction of discovering truth (Langer, 1976, p. 259-60).
Significantly, Langer says what aesthetic pleasure is akin to, not what it is. The experience, not content, of new insight, is key. Art, wh
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