Cognitive processes in the perception of art /

This book reviews progress and describes original research in the cognitive psychology of the arts. The invited contributors are leading authorities, and the topics which they cover include psychological approaches to symbols and meaning in art, issues in experimental aesthetics, the development in...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Crozier, W. Ray, 1945-, Chapman, Antony J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : New York, N.Y. : North Holland ; Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co., ©1984.
Series:Advances in psychology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 19.
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Table of Contents:
  • section 1. Introduction
  • section 2. Symbols and meanings in the arts
  • section 3. The arts and development
  • section 4. Perception of the visual arts
  • section 5. Perception of music
  • section 6. Issues in experimental aesthetics.