aesthetic distance

aesthetic distance
a degree of detachment from or nonidentification with the characters or circumstances of a work of art, permitting the formation of judgments based on aesthetic rather than extra-aesthetic criteria.
[1935-40]

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      the frame of reference that an artist creates by the use of technical devices in and around the work of art to differentiate it psychologically from reality. German playwright Bertolt Brecht (Brecht, Bertolt) built his dramatic theory known in English as the alienation effect to accomplish aesthetic distance.

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