Do aesthetic criteria attend viewing or education? Are aesthetic experiences driven by simple or complex ideas? And what relationships among the primary and secondary qualities of objects can we describe in the wake of the "experience" of an aesthetic encounter? Finally, why do these questions matter?

Hannah Hoch (German, 1889-1978) “Sea Serpent”, 1937, Collage, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., Stuttgart (photo from Belvedere exhibition)