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Author: George Mather Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107005981 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 233
Book Description
A contemporary and interdisciplinary perspective on the study of art, connecting and integrating ideas from across the humanities and sciences.
Author: George Mather Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107005981 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 233
Book Description
A contemporary and interdisciplinary perspective on the study of art, connecting and integrating ideas from across the humanities and sciences.
Author: Catherine Weir Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 135129542X Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 230
Book Description
Interpreting Visual Art explores the psychological and cognitive mechanisms that underlie one's interpretation of art. After the brain encodes visual information, this encoding is then processed by perceptual mechanisms to identify objects and depth in pictures. The brain incorporates many factors in order for people to "see" the art. Cognitive processes have a major role in how people interpret artworks because attention, memory, and language are also linked to the aesthetic experience. Catherine Weir and Evans Mandes first examine major attributes of aesthetic judgement - balance, symmetry, color, line, and shape - from an empirical point of view as opposed to more philosophical and speculative approaches. Then, they explore the perceptual process, paying special attention to art history in the Western world and emphasizing techniques from cave paintings to modern art. The role beauty and emotions play in our interpretations of pictures have been investigated from many approaches: evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, and appraisal theory. Through the application of empirical research in cognitive science to master works from Botticelli to Pollock, readers are introduced to a research-oriented understanding of how art has been perceived, interpreted, and appreciated in the twenty-first century. This book will appeal to those interested in art as well as those teaching art history, psychology, and neuroscience.
Author: Rudolf Arnheim Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520351274 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 528
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Since its publication fifty years ago, this work has established itself as a classic. It casts the visual process in psychological terms and describes the creative way one's eye organizes visual material according to specific psychological premises. In 1974 this book was revised and expanded, and since then it has continued to burnish Rudolf Arnheim's reputation as a groundbreaking theoretician in the fields of art and psychology.
Author: George Mather Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000208117 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 143
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Why do we enjoy art? What inspires us to create artistic works? How can brain science help us understand our taste in art? The Psychology of Art provides an eclectic introduction to the myriad ways in which psychology can help us understand and appreciate creative activities. Exploring how we perceive everything from colour to motion, the book examines art-making as a form of human behaviour that stretches back throughout history as a constant source of inspiration, conflict and conversation. It also considers how factors such as fakery, reproduction technology and sexism influence our judgements about art. By asking what psychological science has to do with artistic appreciation, The Psychology of Art introduces the reader to new ways of thinking about how we create and consume art.
Author: Bjarne Sode Funch Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press ISBN: 9788772894027 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 338
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This 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.
Author: George Mather
Author: George Mather
Author: Catherine Weir
Author: Rudolf Arnheim
Author: Rudolf Arnheim
Author: Rudolf Arnheim
Author: George Mather
Author: James Hogg
Author: Bjarne Sode Funch
Author: Rudolf Arnheim
Author: Norman Kiell