Original sentence: " (1991: 14)." Black goes on to note that "...if murder can be experienced aesthetically, the murderer can in turn be regarded as a kind of artist — a performance artist or anti-artist whose specialty is not creation but destruction.High culture has aestheticized violence into a form of autonomous art.Thomas Harris created a fictional character called Hannibal Lecter, a cannibal and aesthete portrayed by Anthony Hopkins on screen.University of Georgia literature professor Joel Black states that "[i]f any human act evokes the aesthetic experience of the sublime, certainly it is the act of murder
Edited sentence: " Joel Black (1991: 14)."If any human act evokes the aesthetic experience of the sublime, certainly it is the act of murder.An example might be the character Hannibal Lecter, a fictional cannibal and aesthete created by Thomas Harris and then portrayed by Anthony Hopkins on screen.And if murder can be experienced aesthetically, the murderer can in turn be regarded as a kind of artist — a performance artist or anti-artist whose specialty is not creation but destruction.High culture has the capacity to aestheticize violence into a form of autonomous art