The aesthetic experience in the consumption of collections
a study about collectors of statues and action figures
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-5057.v12i1p94-111Keywords:
Collecting, Aesthetic experience, Aesthetization, Memory, NostalgiaAbstract
The collecting is a specialized form of consumer behavior. The aim of this article is to demonstrate how the collecting of statues and figures of action gives their collectors an aesthetic experience and contributes to an aesthetic life. Through a literature review reveals that this type of collection corresponds to an active, selective and passionate process of acquiring and possessing things perceived as part of a set of memory objects, committed to feel. From the interaction of cognitive and emotional components of the collector with the collection of objects, it triggers feelings, impressions and images loaded with symbolic meaning. It is concluded that the power of sentimental evocation of collection objects provides an aesthetic immersion of consumption, appearing as a form of expression and hedonic individualistic culture.
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