Emerging visions of the aesthetic process : psychology, semiology, and philosophy /

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?...

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Other Authors:	Cupchik, Gerald C., László, János, 1948-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Subjects:	Aesthetics > Psychological aspects. Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Literature > Psychology. Play. Aesthetics Esthétique > Aspect psychologique. Création littéraire, artistique, etc. Littérature > Psychologie. Jeu. Esthetica. Psychologische aspecten. Esthétique. Art. Littérature. Créativité. Psychologie. Philosophie. Sémiotique visuelle.
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Table of Contents:

Daniel Berlyne and disinterested criticism: inter- and intradisciplinary discourse / John Furedy
pt. 1. Visual aesthetics: But is it science? / Rudolf Arnheim
The frame as a key to visual perception / Nycole Paquin
Aesthetics and visual semiotics / Fernande Saint-Martin
The complementarity of art and design / Tsion Avital
From perception to production: a multilevel analysis of the aesthetic process / Gerald C. Cupchik
A science of vision for visual art / François Molnar
Sweetness and light: psychological aesthetics and sentimental art / Andrew S. Winston
Psychobiography and visual creativity: four patterns / Pavel Machotka
Cognitive profiles of artists / Ellen Winner and M. Beth Casey
Assessing knowledge in the visual arts / George W. Hardiman, Feng J.Liu, and Ted Zernich
pt. 2. Literary and other aesthetic processes: The beginning of a new psychology: Vygotsky's psychology of art / Vladimir S. Sobkin and Dmitry A. Leontiev
Empirical aesthetics in the former USSR: selected topics / Dmitry A. Leontiev, Vladimir M. Petrov, and Vladimir S. Sobkin
The psychology of literature: a social-cognitive approach / János László
Why literature is not enough: or, Literary studies as media studies / Siegfried J. Schmidt
Uncovering the laws of literary history / Colin Martindale
Evolution of art and brain asymmetry: a review of empirical investigations / Vladimir M. Petrov
pt. 3. Play: A neurophysiological theory of play / István Bende and Endre Grastyán
Paradoxes of children's play in Vygotsky's theory / Elena A Bugrimenko and Elena O. Smirnova
The personal component in playing interfaces / Moshe D. Caspi.