The Psychology Of Artists And The Arts

Author : Edward W.L. Smith
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786490554

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The Psychology of Artists and the Arts by Edward W.L. Smith Pdf

This book offers the first comprehensive examination of the psychodynamic theories of artistic creativity and the arts. Neither oversimplifying the complexity of these theories, nor bogging down in pedantic discourse, it honors the depth and richness of the work of Freud, Adler, Kris, Reich, Jung, and several lesser-known theorists, while making their theories readily accessible to the educated reader. After discussing the role of theory, the work offers each concept as a readily usable template for describing and understanding a work of art, whether painting, sculpture, music, dance, film, poetry, or prose. With these theories at hand, anyone interested in the arts will possess a far richer vocabulary for describing the artistic experience and a deeper understanding of the artist's creativity.

Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781941701782

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The Psychology of an Art Writer by Vernon Lee Pdf

An openly lesbian, feminist writer, Vernon Lee—a pseudonym of Violet Paget—is the most important female aesthetician to come out of nineteenth century England. Though she was widely known for her supernatural fictions, Lee hasn’t gained the recognition she so clearly deserves for her contributions in the fields of aesthetics, philosophy of empathy, and art criticism. An early follower of Walter Pater, her work is characterized by extreme attention to her own responses to artworks, and a level of psychological sensitivity rarely seen in any aesthetic writing. Today, she is largely overlooked in curriculums, her aesthetic works long out of print. David Zwirner Books is reintroducing Lee’s writing through the first-ever English publication of "Psychology of an Art Writer" (1903) along with selections from her groundbreaking "Gallery Diaries" (1901–1904), breathtaking accounts of Lee’s own experiences with the great paintings and sculptures she traveled to see. Ranging from deeply felt assessments of the way mood affects our ability to appreciate art, to detailed descriptions of some of the most powerful personal experiences with artworks, these writings provide profound insights into the fields of psychology and aesthetics. Her philosophical inquiries in The Psychology of an Art Writer leave no stone unturned, combining fine-grained ekphrases with high fancy and dense abstraction. The diaries, in turn, establish Lee as one of the most sensitive writers about art in any language. With a foreword by Berkeley classicist Dylan Kenny, which guides the reader through these writings and contextualizes these texts within Lee’s other work, this is the quintessential introduction to her astonishing and complex oeuvre.

Author : George Mather
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Ellen Winner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Rudolf Arnheim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520266018

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Toward a Psychology of Art by Rudolf Arnheim Pdf

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Author : Bjarne Sode Funch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 1032164387

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The Psychology of Artistic Creativity by Bjarne Sode Funch Pdf

This ground-breaking book provides a unique insight into artistic creativity that lays the foundation for a new theory. Through a review of documents such as essays, published interviews, lecture notes, and more, the book uses case studies of six contemporary artists to provide a detailed phenomenological study of artistic creativity. The book offers a narrative account of six contemporary artists and their ways of approaching art-making. Through comprehensive accounts based on the individual artist's descriptions, the book reveals an existential dimension of art-making that explores the inspirational moment, the state of mind during creativity, how creativity can originate in a spontaneous stream of consciousness and how emotions play a major role in the creative process. The book sets out a unique understanding of artistic creativity as an alternative to the prevailing cognitive conceptions within psychology. Offering novel insights into how art is created and can influence the human psyche, the book will primarily appeal to academics, scholars, and post-graduate students within the area of creativity research, psychological aesthetics, and the psychology of art, as well as those with an interest in art and artistic work.

Author : Rudolf Arnheim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780520907843

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New Essays on the Psychology of Art by Rudolf Arnheim Pdf

Thousands of readers who have profited from engagement with the lively mind of Rudolf Arnheim over the decades will receive news of this new collection of essays expectantly. In the essays collected here, as in his earlier work on a large variety of art forms, Arnheim explores concrete poetry and the metaphors of Dante, photography and the meaning of music. There are essays on color composition, forgeries, and the problems of perspective, on art in education and therapy, on the style of artists' late works, and the reading of maps. Also, in a triplet of essays on pioneers in the psychology of art (Max Wertheimer, Gustav Theodor Fechner, and Wilhelm Worringer) Arnheim goes back to the roots of modern thinking about the mechanisms of artistic perception.

Author : Gregory Minissale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107019324

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The Psychology of Contemporary Art by Gregory Minissale Pdf

This book examines how contemporary artworks can affect our psychology, producing immersive experiences.

Author : Rudolf Arnheim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520243838

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Art and Visual Perception, Second Edition by Rudolf Arnheim Pdf

A 50-year-old classic, which was revised and expanded in 1974. Explains how the eye organizes visual material according to psychological laws.

Author : Emily Urquhart
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781487005320

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The Age of Creativity by Emily Urquhart Pdf

A moving portrait of a father and daughter relationship and a case for late-stage creativity from Emily Urquhart, the bestselling author of Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family, and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes. “The fundamental misunderstanding of our time is that we belong to one age group or another. We all grow old. There is no us and them. There was only ever an us.” — from The Age of Creativity It has long been thought that artistic output declines in old age. When Emily Urquhart and her family celebrated the eightieth birthday of her father, the illustrious painter Tony Urquhart, she found it remarkable that, although his pace had slowed, he was continuing his daily art practice of drawing, painting, and constructing large-scale sculptures, and was even innovating his style. Was he defying the odds, or is it possible that some assumptions about the elderly are flat-out wrong? After all, many well-known visual artists completed their best work in the last decade of their lives, Turner, Monet, and Cézanne among them. With the eye of a memoirist and the curiosity of a journalist, Urquhart began an investigation into late-stage creativity, asking: Is it possible that our best work is ahead of us? Is there an expiry date on creativity? Do we ever really know when we’ve done anything for the last time? The Age of Creativity is a graceful, intimate blend of research on ageing and creativity, including on progressive senior-led organizations, such as a home for elderly theatre performers and a gallery in New York City that only represents artists over sixty, and her experiences living and travelling with her father. Emily Urquhart reveals how creative work, both amateur and professional, sustains people in the third act of their lives, and tells a new story about the possibilities of elder-hood.

Author : G.D. Wilson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9026511191

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Psychology and Performing Arts by G.D. Wilson Pdf

Author : George Hagman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136896538

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The Artist's Mind by George Hagman Pdf

For the past century psychoanalysts have attempted to understand the psychology of art, artists and aesthetic experience. This book examines how contemporary psychoanalytic theory provides insight into understanding the psychological sources of creativity, Modern Art and modern artists. The Artist’s Mind revisits the lives of eight modern artists including Henri Matisse, Marcel Duchamp, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol, from a psychoanalytical viewpoint. It looks at how opportunities for a new approach to art at the turn of the twentieth century offered artists a chance to explore different forms of creativity and artistic ambition. Key areas of discussion include: developmental sources of the aesthetic sense psychological functions of creativity and art psychology of beauty, ugliness and the Sublime. co-evolution of the modern self, modernism and art. cultural context of creativity, artistic identify and aesthetic experience. Through the examination of great artists’ lives and psychological dynamics, the author articulates a new psychoanalytic aesthetic model that has both clinical and historical significance. As such this book is essential reading for all those with an interest in the origins and fate of Modern Art.

Author : Robert L. Solso
Publisher : Bradford Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0262194848

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The Psychology of Art and the Evolution of the Conscious Brain by Robert L. Solso Pdf

How human consciousness evolved to perceive and create art.

Author : George Mather
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107005983

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The Psychology of Visual Art by George Mather Pdf

A contemporary and interdisciplinary perspective on the study of art, connecting and integrating ideas from across the humanities and sciences.

Author : Alain Botton,John Armstrong
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 0714872784

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Art as Therapy by Alain Botton,John Armstrong Pdf

Two authorities on popular culture reveal the ways in which art can enhance mood and enrich lives - now available in paperback This passionate, thought-provoking, often funny, and always-accessible book proposes a new way of looking at art, suggesting that it can be useful, relevant, and therapeutic. Through practical examples, the world-renowned authors argue that certain great works of art have clues as to how to manage the tensions and confusions of modern life. Chapters on love, nature, money, and politics show how art can help with many common difficulties, from forging good relationships to coming to terms with mortality.