Emerging Visions Of The Aesthetic Process

Author : Gerald C. Cupchik,Janos László
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521400511

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Emerging Visions of the Aesthetic Process by Gerald C. Cupchik,Janos László Pdf

Emerging Visions of the Aesthetic Process explores the processes underlying aesthetics and play from the perspectives of psychologists, philosophers, and semiologists. It reveals the different ways in which scholars think about the following questions: (1) What is the origin of the creative process? (2) How do biological, social, and cognitive processes shape the activities of artists and the responses of viewers? (3) How does literary activity draw on our experiences of everyday life and how is it tied to other kinds of media? (4) How does play affect the process of growth from childhood to adulthood? The contributors consider artistic, literary, and play activity from its most biological roots through individual cognitive and emotional processing to its expression at the social level. Emerging Visions of the Aesthetic Process offers a stimulating basis for the discussion of aesthetic processes and will serve as an integrative, comprehensive treatise on the topic for researchers and students.

Author : Paul Locher,Colin Martindale,Leonid Dorfman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351842839

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New Directions in Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts by Paul Locher,Colin Martindale,Leonid Dorfman Pdf

The contributing authors to this book, all pre-eminent scholars in their fields, present their current thinking about the processes that underlie creativity and aesthetic experience. They discuss established theory and research and provide creative speculation on future problems for inquiry and new approaches to conceptualising and investigating these phenomena. The book contains many new findings and ideas never before published or new by virtue of the novel context in which they are incorporated. Thus, the chapters present both new approaches to old problem and new ideas and approaches not yet explored by leading scholars in these fields. The first part of the book is devoted to understanding the nature of the perceptual/cognitive and aesthetic processes that occur during encounters with visual art stimuli in everyday settings, in museums and while watching films. Also discussed in Part I is how cultural and anthropological approaches to the study of aesthetic responses to art contribute to our understanding about the development of a culture's artistic canon and to cross-cultural aesthetic universals. Part II presents new dimensions in the study of creativity. Two approaches to the development of a comprehensive theory of creativity are presented: Sternberg's Investment Theory of Creativity and a systems perspective of creativity based on a metaindividual world model. Also covered are the factors that contribute to cinematic creativity and a film's cinematic success, and the complex nature of the creative processes and research approaches involved in the innovative product design necessitated by the introduction of electronics in consumer products. Part III deals with the application of concepts and models from cognitive psychology to the study of music, literary meaning and the visual arts. The contributors outline a model of the cognitive processes involved in real-time listening to music, investigate what readers are doing when they read a literary text, describe what research shows about the transfer of learning from the arts to non-arts cognition and discuss the kinds of thinking skills that emerge from the study of the visual arts by high school students. In Part IV, the authors focus on the interactive contribution of observers' personalities and affect states to the creation and perception of art. The chapters include a discussion of the internal mechanisms by which personality expresses itself during the making of and the response to art; the relationship between emotion and cognition in aesthetics, in terms of the interaction of top-down and bottom-up processes across the time course of an aesthetic episode; the affective processes that take place during pretend play and their impact on the development of creativity in children and the causes and consequences of listener's intense experiences while listening to music.

Author : Lea Höfel
Publisher : Leipziger Universitätsverlag
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 386583289X

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Behavioral and Electrophysiological Indices of Processing Aesthetics of Graphic Patterns and Human Faces by Lea Höfel Pdf

Author : Colin Martindale,Paul Locher,Vladimir M Petrov,Arnold Berleant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351844536

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Evolutionary and Neurocognitive Approaches to Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts by Colin Martindale,Paul Locher,Vladimir M Petrov,Arnold Berleant Pdf

In this book, well-known scholars describe new and exciting approaches to aesthetics, creativity and psychology of the arts, approaching these topics from a point of view that is biological or related to biology and answering new questions with new methods and theories. All known societies produce and enjoy arts such as literature, music and visual decoration or depiction. Judging from prehistoric archaeological evidence, this arose very early in human development. Furthermore, Darwin was explicit in attributing aesthetic sensitivity to lower animals. These considerations lead us to wonder whether the arts might not be evolutionarily based. Although such an evolutionary basis is not obvious on the face of it, the idea has recently elicited considerable attention. The book begins with a consideration of ten theories on the evolutionary function of specific arts such as music and literature. The theory of evolution was first drawn up in biology, but evolution is not confined to biology: genuinely evolutionary theories of sociocultural change can be formulated. That they need to be formulated is shown in several chapters that discuss regular trends in literature and scientific writings. Psychologists have recently rediscovered the obvious fact that thought and perception occur in the brain, so cognitive science moves ever closer to neuroscience. Several chapters give overviews of neurocognitive and neural network approaches to creativity and aesthetic appreciation. The book concludes with two exciting describing brain-scan research on what happens in the brain during creativity and presenting a close examination of the relationship between genetically transmitted mental disorder and creativity.

Author : Kenneth L. Smith,Sandra Moriarty,Keith Kenney,Gretchen Barbatsis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135636524

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Handbook of Visual Communication by Kenneth L. Smith,Sandra Moriarty,Keith Kenney,Gretchen Barbatsis Pdf

This Handbook of Visual Communication explores the key theoretical areas in visual communication, and presents the research methods utilized in exploring how people see and how visual communication occurs. With chapters contributed by many of the best-known and respected scholars in visual communication, this volume brings together significant and influential work in the visual communication discipline. The theory chapters included here define the twelve major theories in visual communication scholarship: aesthetics, perception, representation, visual rhetoric, cognition, semiotics, reception theory, narrative, media aesthetics, ethics, visual literacy, and cultural studies. Each of these theory chapters is followed by exemplar studies in the area, demonstrating the various methods used in visual communication research as well as the research approaches applicable for specific media types. The Handbook serves as an invaluable reference for visual communication theory as well as a useful resource book of research methods in the discipline. It defines the current state of theory and research in visual communication, and serves as a foundation for future scholarship and study. As such, it is required reading for scholars, researchers, and advanced students in visual communication, and it will be influential in other disciplines in which the visual component is key, including advertising, persuasion, and media studies. The volume will also be useful to practitioners seeking to understand the visual aspects of their media and the visual processes used by their audiences.

Author : Morton P. Friedman,Edward C. Carterette
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996-02-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780080529271

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Cognitive Ecology by Morton P. Friedman,Edward C. Carterette Pdf

Cognitive Ecology identifies the richness of input to our sensory evaluations, from our cultural heritage and philosophies of aesthetics to perceptual cognition and judgment. Integrating the arts, humanities, and sciences, Cognitive Ecology investigates the relationship of perception and cognition to wider issues of how science is conducted, and how the questions we ask about perception influence the answers we find. Part One discusses how issues of the human mind are inseparable from the culture from which the investigations arise, how mind and environment co-define experience and actions, and how culture otherwise influences cognitive function. Part Two outlines how philosophical themes of aesthetics have guided psychological research, and discuss the physical and aesthetic perception of music, film, and art. Part Three presents an overview of how the senses interact for sensory evaluation.

Author : Dolf Zillmann,Peter Vorderer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135667535

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Media Entertainment by Dolf Zillmann,Peter Vorderer Pdf

This collection represents a systematic exploration of media entertainment from an academic perspective. Editors Zillmann and Vorderer have assembled scholars from psychology, sociology, and communication to provide a broad examination of the primary function of media entertainment--the attainment of gratification. Chapters included here address vital aspects of media entertainment and summarize pertinent findings, providing an overview of what is presently known about the appeal and function of the essential forms of media entertainment, and offering some degree of integration. Written in a clear, non-technical style, this volume provides a lively and entertaining study of media entertainment for academic study and coursework.

Author : Martin S. Lindauer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030516413

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Mass-Produced Original Paintings, the Psychology of Art, and an Everyday Aesthetics by Martin S. Lindauer Pdf

This book examines the contribution of mass-produced original painting to the psychology of art, psychological aesthetics, and art criticism. Mass-produced paintings are an inexpensive, accessible, ubiquitous, and hand-painted popular art by anonymous artists or teams. Sold in an array of outlets, ranging from flea markets to shopping centers to cruise ships, they decorate hotels, offices, and homes. Addressed is their neglect in current scholarship in favor of a nearly exclusive investigation of the high arts and their audiences, as represented by museum paintings. Lindauer contextualizes his analysis by tracing the historical origins of this type of painting, popular art in general, and their evolutionary trajectory, exploring issues including: the impact of art and artists’ creativity on viewers; the overemphasis on originality and name recognition; what is art and who can be called an artist; and the extension of aesthetics to include an everyday kind. The book concludes with directions for future research in the popular and traditional arts, the psychology of art, and, more broadly, the ties that transcend barriers between science, the arts, and the humanities. It will appeal to students and scholars from across the fields of psychology, sociology, philosophy, art history, and cultural, media and communication studies.

Author : Arthur P. Shimamura,Stephen E. Palmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199875740

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Aesthetic Science by Arthur P. Shimamura,Stephen E. Palmer Pdf

What do we do when we view a work of art? What does it mean to have an "aesthetic" experience? Are such experiences purely in the eye (and brain) of the beholder? Such questions have entertained philosophers for millennia and psychologists for over a century. More recently, with the advent of functional neuroimaging methods, a handful of ambitious brain scientists have begun to explore the neural correlates of such experiences. This book offers an introduction to the way art is perceived, interpreted, and felt and approaches these mindful events from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Author : David Feeney
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820486620

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Toward an Aesthetics of Blindness by David Feeney Pdf

Blindness has always fascinated those who can see. Although modern imaginative portrayals of the sightless experience are increasingly positive, the affirmative elements of these renderings are inevitably tempered and problematized by the visual predilections of the artists undertaking them. This book explores a variety of the (dis)continuities between depictions of the sightless experience of beauty by sighted artists and the lived aesthetic experiences of blind people. It does so by pressing a radical interdisciplinary reinterpretation of celebrated dramatic portrayals of blindness into service as a tool with which to probe the boundaries of the capacities of the sighted imagination while exploring the sensory detriment of our visually fixated notions of beauty. Works by J. M. Synge, W. B. Yeats, and Brian Friel are explored as a means of crafting a workable and innovative medium of theoretical and experiential exchange between the disciplines of literature, aesthetics, and disability studies. In addition to appraising previously unexamined aspects of the work of three of Ireland's most celebrated modern dramatists, this book considers the consequences for blind people of the exclusionary and prohibitive elements of traditional aesthetic theory and art education. The insights yielded will be of value to those with an interest in modern literature, differential aesthetics, visual culture, perception, and the experience of blindness.

Author : Joseph P. Huston,Marcos Nadal,Mora Teruel Mora,Luigi Francesco Agnati,Camilo José Cela Conde
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199670000

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Art, Aesthetics, and the Brain by Joseph P. Huston,Marcos Nadal,Mora Teruel Mora,Luigi Francesco Agnati,Camilo José Cela Conde Pdf

What neural processes underlie the appreciation of painting, music, and dance? How did such processes evolve? This book brings together experts in genetics, psychology, neuroimaging, neuropsychology, art history, and philosophy to explore these questions. It sets the stage for a cognitive neuroscience of art and aesthetics.

Author : Gerald C. Cupchik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107024458

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The Aesthetics of Emotion by Gerald C. Cupchik Pdf

Argues that relations between mind and body are analogous to those between subject matter and style in art.

Author : Tone Roald,Johannes Lang
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789401209045

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Art and Identity by Tone Roald,Johannes Lang Pdf

Art has the capacity to shape and alter our identities. It can influence who and what we are. Those who have had aesthetic experiences know this intimately, and yet the study of art’s impact on the mind struggles to be recognized as a centrally important field within the discipline of psychology. The main thesis of Art and Identity is that aesthetic experience represents a prototype for meaningful experience, warranting intense philosophical and psychological investigation. Currently psychology remains too closed-off from the rich reflection of philosophical aesthetics, while philosophy continues to be sceptical of the psychological reduction of art to its potential for Subjective experience. At the same time, philosophical aesthetics cannot escape making certain assumptions about the psyche and benefits from entering into a dialogue with psychology. Art and Identity brings together philosophical and psychological perspectives on aesthetics in order to explore how art creates minds.

Author : K. Anders Ericsson,Robert R. Hoffman,Aaron Kozbelt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 985 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781107137554

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The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance by K. Anders Ericsson,Robert R. Hoffman,Aaron Kozbelt Pdf

In this book, some of the world's foremost 'experts on expertise' provide scientific knowledge on expertise and expert performance.

Author : James Combs
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443824699

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Wit's End by James Combs Pdf

This book is a study of the “Great Movies,” that fluid category of feature films deemed by various authorities—film societies, critics, academics, and movie enthusiasts—to be the enduring and memorable works of cinematic history. But what are they about? In Wit’s End, the author attempts to “make sense” of these films in order to understand their greatness in the context of their relation to other films and to the worlds they come from and recreate on screen. To that end, we employ the conceptual power of pragmatic social theory and the rich idea of aesthesis to explore and arrange these films as a means of understanding what they express about the universality of human life in our keen use of wit, organization of social wont, and direction of cultural way. It is hoped that such an inquiry will illuminate the glory of the great films and contribute to the advance of film studies.