23.5 × 16 cm, hardcover with dust jacket, x, 176 pp., 25 ill. in color, text in German, dust jacket slightly damaged, in very good condition, see picture.
Philosophical exploration of aesthetic contemplation, examining how lingering over art allows for experiences that transcend ordinary temporality. Westerkamp develops a theory of artistic abstraction and proposes a relational model of imagery, situating aesthetic contemplation within the broader context of modern symbolic imagination.
