Mass Produced Original Paintings The Psychology Of Art And An Everyday Aesthetics

Author : Martin S. Lindauer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Leonid Grinin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031567643

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Cybernetic Revolution and Global Aging by Leonid Grinin Pdf

Author : David Maclagan
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781853028342

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Psychological Aesthetics by David Maclagan Pdf

An introduction to the field of psychological aesthetics for art educators, art therapists, psychoanalysts, artists and art lovers, this book re-evaluates conventional philosophical and psychoanalytic approaches to aesthetic qualities themselves, to the kinds of psychological significance they can generate, and to the interweaving of inner and outer realities upon which this depends. Art history tends to see an artist's work in the context of their life and times; psychoanalysis and art therapy tend to see art works in terms of an unconscious' meaning that is beneath the surface of its aesthetic' properties, within the context of the therapeutic relationship. Maclagan draws attention to the intimate connections between the aesthetic qualities of an art work per se, felt out in its material handling, be they attractive, disconcerting or just bland, and a wide range of psychological meanings. Drawing on phenomenology and archetypal psychology, as well as on neglected writers on unconcious aspects of form, Psychological Aesthetics: Painting, Feeling and Making Sense explores this realm of feeling, the different ways in which it is embodied in art and how we can use subjective' strategies to articulate it in words. It will open new perspectives in understanding both the processes of art making and our creative response to its results.

Author : John Dewey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Art as Experience by John Dewey Pdf

Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : HMH
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1968-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780547540658

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Illuminations by Walter Benjamin Pdf

Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century’s most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt. Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht’s epic theater. Illuminations also includes his penetrating study “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode; and his theses on the philosophy of history. Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin’s life in a dark historical era. Leon Wieseltier’s preface explores Benjamin’s continued relevance for our times. Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt Brecht and Jewish mysticism as presented by Gershom Scholem.​

Author : Paul M.W. Hackett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781137483324

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Psychology and Philosophy of Abstract Art by Paul M.W. Hackett Pdf

This book examines how we perceive and understand abstract art in contrast to artworks that represent reality. Philosophical, psychological and neuroscience research, including the work of philosopher Paul Crowther, are considered and out of these approaches a complex model is developed to account for this experience. The understanding embodied in this model is rooted in facet theory, mapping sentences and partially ordered analyses, which together provide a comprehensive understanding of the perceptual experience of abstract art.

Author : Riccardo Manzotti
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781845403669

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Situated Aesthetics by Riccardo Manzotti Pdf

This book focuses on externalist approaches to art. It is the first fruit of a workshop held in Milan in September 2009, where leading scholars in the emerging field of psychology of art compared their different approaches using a neutral language and discussing freely their goals. The event threw up common grounds for future research activities. First, there is a considerable interest in using cognitive and neural inspired techniques to help art historians, museum curators, art archiving, art preservation. Secondly, cognitive scientists and neuroscientists are rather open to using art as a special way of accessing the structures of the mind. Third, there are artists who explicitly draw inspiration out of current research on various aspects of the mind. Fourth, during the workshop, a converging methodological paradigm emerged around which more specific efforts could be encouraged.

Author : Marcos Nadal,Oshin Vartanian
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1105 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780192557728

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The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics by Marcos Nadal,Oshin Vartanian Pdf

Humans have engaged in artistic and aesthetic activities since the appearance of our species. Our ancestors have decorated their bodies, tools, and utensils for over 100,000 years. The expression of meaning using color, line, sound, rhythm, or movement, among other means, constitutes a fundamental aspect of our species' biological and cultural heritage. Art and aesthetics, therefore, contribute to our species identity and distinguish it from its living and extinct relatives. Science is faced with the challenge of explaining the natural foundations of such a unique trait, and the way cultural processes nurture it into magnificent expressions, historically and ethnically unique. How do the human mind and brain bring about these sorts of behaviors? What psychological and neural processes underlie the appreciation of painting, music, and dance? How does training modulate these processes? Are humans the only species capable of aesthetic appreciation, or are other species endowed with the rudiments of this capacity? Empirical examinations of such questions have a long and rich history in the discipline of psychology, the genesis of which can be traced back to the publication of Gustav Theodor Fechner's Vorschule der Aesthetik in 1876, making it the second oldest branch in experimental psychology. The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics brings together leading experts in psychology, neuroimaging, art history, and philosophy to answer these questions. It provides the most comprehensive coverage of the domain of empirical aesthetics to date. With sections on visual art, dance, music, and many other art forms and aesthetic phenomena, the breadth of this volume's scope reflects the richness and variety of topics and methods currently used today by scientists to understand the way our mind and brain endow us with the faculty to produce and appreciate art and aesthetics.

Author : Ellen Winner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190863357

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How Art Works by Ellen Winner Pdf

"How Art Works explores puzzles that have preoccupied philosophers as well as the general public: Can art be defined? How do we decide what is good art? Why do we gravitate to sadness in art? Why do we devalue a perfect fake? Could 'my kid have done that'? Does reading fiction enhance empathy? Drawing on careful observations, probing interviews, and clever experiments, Ellen Winner reveals surprising answers to these and other artistic mysteries. We may come away with a new understanding of how art works on us."--Jacket.

Author : Richard Shusterman,Adele Tomlin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415378321

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Aesthetic Experience by Richard Shusterman,Adele Tomlin Pdf

Examines the notion of aesthetic experience as well as its value. This title brings together major voices that have directly theorised the concept of aesthetic experience or indirectly worked on topics connected to it.

Author : Benjamin J Richardson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509924622

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The Art of Environmental Law by Benjamin J Richardson Pdf

Environmental law has aesthetic dimensions. Aesthetic values have shaped the making of environmental law, and in turn such law governs many of our nature-based sensory experiences. Aesthetics is also integral to understanding the very fabric of environmental law, in its institutions, procedures and discourses. The Art of Environmental Law, the first book of its kind, brings new insights into the importance of aesthetic issues in a variety of domains of environmental governance around the world, from climate change to biodiversity conservation. It also argues for aesthetics, and relatedly the arts, to be taken more seriously in the practice of environmental law so as to improve our emotional and ethical capacities to address the upheavals of the Anthropocene.

Author : Arnold Berleant
Publisher : Cybereditions Corporation
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1877275255

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The Aesthetic Field by Arnold Berleant Pdf

Arguing that traditional answers to the question "What is art?" are partial at best, Arnold Berleant contends that we need to understand art as a complex aesthetic field encompassing all the factors that form the context and experience of art.

Author : George Mather
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000208115

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The Psychology of Art by George Mather Pdf

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 : Jussi Saarinen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000095166

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Affect in Artistic Creativity by Jussi Saarinen Pdf

Why do painters paint? Obviously, there are numerous possible reasons. They paint to create images for others’ enjoyment, to solve visual problems, to convey ideas, and to contribute to a rich artistic tradition. This book argues that there is yet another, crucially important but often overlooked reason. Painters paint to feel. They paint because it enables them to experience special feelings, such as being absorbed in creative play and connected to something vitally significant. Painting may even transform the painter’s whole sense of being. Thus, painting is not only about producing art, communicating content, and so on, but also about setting up and inhabiting an experiential space wherein highly valued feelings are interactively enabled and supported. This book investigates how and why this happens by combining psychoanalytical theorization on creativity with philosophical thinking on affectivity. It focuses on creative experience itself, and illuminates the psychological mechanisms and dynamics that underlie the affects at stake. Painters’ own descriptions of how they feel at work are used throughout to give an accurate, true-to-life portrayal of the experience of painting. The strength of the book lies in its open-minded yet critical integration of contemporary psychoanalytic and philosophical thinking, and in its truthfulness to painters’ experiential descriptions of the painterly process. On the whole, it enriches our understanding of artistic creativity and sheds more light on how and why we come to feel the things we do. As such, the book will appeal to philosophers, psychoanalysts, and art researchers alike.

Author : Pablo P. L. Tinio,Jeffrey K. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1086 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781316123386

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The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Aesthetics and the Arts by Pablo P. L. Tinio,Jeffrey K. Smith Pdf

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.