Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Aesthetics and the Arts (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Tinio, Pablo P. L.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The psychology of aesthetics and the arts is dedicated to the study of our experiences of the visual arts, music, literature, film, performances, architecture and design; our experiences of beauty and ugliness; our preferences and dislikes; and our everyday perceptions of things in our world. The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Aesthetics and the Arts is a foundational volume presenting an overview of the key concepts and theories of the discipline where readers can learn about the questions that are being asked and become acquainted with the perspectives and methodologies used to address them. The psychology of aesthetics and the arts is one of the oldest areas of psychology but it is also one of the fastest growing and most exciting areas. This is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook featuring essays from some of the most respected scholars in the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316120118
• Artikelnr.: 49267961

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Concepts, Theories and Methods: 1. Introduction by the editors
Jeffrey K. Smith and Pablo P. L. Tinio; 2. Empirical aesthetics: hindsight
and foresight Oshin Vartanian; 3. Philosophy of art and empirical
aesthetics: resistance and rapprochement William P. Seeley; 4. Theoretical
foundations for an empirical aesthetics Gerald C. Cupchik; 5. Aesthetics
assessment Aaron Kozbelt and James C. Kaufman; Part II. Perspectives and
Approaches to Art and Aesthetics: 6. Beyond perception: information
processing approaches to art appreciation Helmut Leder; 7. Psychodynamics
and the arts Pavel Machotka; 8. Evolutionary approaches to art and
aesthetics Marcos Nadal and Gerardo Gómez-Puerto; 9. The walls do speak:
psychological aesthetics and the museum experience Pablo P. L. Tinio,
Jeffrey K. Smith and Lisa F. Smith; Part III. Objects and Media: 10.
Empirical investigation of the elements of composition in paintings: a
painting as stimulus Paul J. Locher; 11. 'Mute, motionless, variegated
rectangles': aesthetics and photography I. C. McManus and Katharina Stöver;
12. Aesthetic responses to design: a battle of impulses Paul Hekkert;
13. From music perception to an integrative framework for the psychology of
aesthetics Stefan Koelsch; 14. Theater and dance: another pathway to
understanding human nature Thalia R. Goldstein and Rebecca Yasskin; 15.
Arts education, academic achievement and cognitive ability Swathi
Swaminathan and E. Glenn Schellenberg; 16. Aesthetics and the built
environment: no painting or musical piece can compare Andréa Livi Smith;
17. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest one of all? Influencing
factors and effects of facial attractiveness Gernot Gerger and Helmut
Leder; 18. An aesthetics of literary fiction David Carr; Part IV.
Contemporary Issues and Debates: 19. Neuroaesthetics: descriptive and
experimental approaches Anjan Chatterjee; 20. How emotions shape aesthetic
experiences Stefano Mastandrea; 21. Unusual aesthetic states Emily C.
Nusbaum and Paul J. Silvia; 22. Personality and aesthetic experiences Viren
Swami and Adrian Furnham; 23. Hokusai and Fuji: cognition, convention and
pictorial invention in Japanese pictorial arts David Bell; Part V. Pulling
it All Together: 24. And all that jazz: rigour and relevance in the
psychology of aesthetics and the arts Pablo P. L. Tinio and Jeffrey K.
Smith.