The Psychology of Art AppreciationThis book is more than an introduction to the psychology of art appreciation, it puts into perspective the research carried out within the area and offers a new understanding of the relationship between art and viewer. A number of studies within the psycho-physical, cognitive, psychoanalytic, and existential-phenomenological schools of thought are presented in order to demonstrate how their views on the appreciation of visual art vary. Five different types of art appreciation, ranging from a spontaneous preference for a work of art to a blissful experience of trancendence, are identified and described. |
Contents
Part | 9 |
IMAGE AND IDEA IN VISUAL ART | 58 |
Part | 73 |
ART AND VISUAL PERCEPTION | 110 |
Part Three | 139 |
THE GREAT EXPERIENCE IN ART | 168 |
Individuation | 175 |
Part Four | 185 |
ART AND EXISTENCE | 214 |
CONCLUSION | 269 |
Common terms and phrases
activity aesthetic appreciation aesthetic experience aesthetic fascination aesthetic pleasure aesthetic sensitivity analog appears approach to art archetypal Arnheim art appreciation art preference art understanding believes Berlyne Bullough characteristics characterized Child cognitive cognitive approach collective unconscious conception consciousness contemplation Csikszentmihalyi and Robinson describes dynamics emotional quality empathy ence encounter example existential existential-phenomenological experimental Fechner feeling of pleasure Freud Gardner golden section Gombrich human existence ibid important individual influence insight Irvin L Kreitler Kris Leonardo Leonardo da Vinci Lipps manifested meaning mind Neumann object ordinary Pablo Picasso painting perception perience phenomenological pictorial picture psyche psychical distance psycho-physical psychoanalytic psychological aesthetics psychology of art recognized refers rience Rudolf Arnheim Sigmund Freud significant specific spontaneous studies symbols Theodor Lipps theory thetic experience tion traditional type of art unconscious usually visual art visual aspect visual forces visual perception Vitz
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