Aesthetic judgment, as simultaneously synthetic and analytic, is therefore intrinsically mystagogic. This means that aesthetic experience in which aesthetic judgment is formed on the basis of an exclamation that leaves the subject staggered, mouth agape, is a short of initiation into mystery, and into transformative, aesthetic mystery.
The Decadence of Industrial Democracies
Bernard Stiegler
Europa (1957)
Helen Frankenthaler