The Psychology of Art Appreciation
Author | : Bjarne Sode Funch |
Publisher | : Museum Tusculanum Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1997 |
ISBN-10 | : 8772894024 |
ISBN-13 | : 9788772894027 |
Rating | : 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: This book is more than an introduction to the psychology of art appreciation, it puts into perspective the research carried out within the area and offers a new understanding of the relationship between art and viewer. A number of studies within the psycho-physical, cognitive, psychoanalytic, and existential-phenomenological schools of thought are presented in order to demonstrate how their views on the appreciation of visual art vary. Five different types of art appreciation, ranging from a spontaneous preference for a work of art to a blissful experience of trancendence, are identified and described.