Invented Worlds

Invented Worlds
Author: Ellen Winner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 454
Release: 1982
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780674463615

Psychologist Ellen Winner studies the creative, nonliteral discourse of children's spontaneous speech, examining how their abilities to use and interpret figurative language change as they grow older, and what such language shows us about the changing feature's of children's minds.

The Psychology of Art

The Psychology of Art
Author: George Mather
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2020-10-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000208117

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.

The Psychology of Artists and the Arts

The Psychology of Artists and the Arts
Author: Edward W.L. Smith
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0786490551

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.

The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Aesthetics and the Arts

The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Aesthetics and the Arts
Author: Pablo P. L. Tinio
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1195
Release: 2014-10-30
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1316123383

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.

The Psychology of Art

The Psychology of Art
Author: Lev S. Vygotsky
Publisher: Mit Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1974-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780262720052

The Psychology of Visual Art

The Psychology of Visual Art
Author: George Mather
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2014
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1107005981

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

Art and Visual Perception, Second Edition

Art and Visual Perception, Second Edition
Author: Rudolf Arnheim
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2004-11-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520243835

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

How Art Works

How Art Works
Author: Ellen Winner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2019
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0190863358

"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.