Brittany Wissen -- On Numinosity

Author Michael M. Ames discusses in his article, “The Nature of Numinosity and Its Museological Reconstruction,” how re-representation of artwork, though one is not experiencing the original, is “no more artificial than its original representation, though it has become a different artifice” (61). The idea of numinosity relates directly to class discussion. For example, the reproduction of a story is never as real as actually being there when the story was taking place since one can’t capture the same feeling now that it is gone. This, clearly, is not the same in art and architecture.

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Ames, Michael A. “The Nature of Numinosity and Its Museological Reconstruction.” The Journal of Walters Art Gallery 52.53 (1994) 61-?.