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Experimental Psychology of Beauty.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Florence :
Taylor and Francis,
2015.
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| Colección: | Collected Works of C.W. Valentine.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; PREFACE; CONTENTS; TABLES; ILLUSTRATIONS; I INTRODUCTION; Values of psychological studies of beauty; Beauty and Pleasure; Beauty and Art not identical; General psychological remarks on the enjoyment of beauty; Is it futile to discuss differenceof taste?; Methods of experiment; Unconscious influences, art and sex; Psychology and the art critics; II COLOUR AND COLOUR PREFERENCES; The associative and direct effects of colours; Colour preferences among infants, white and coloured adults.
- Individual differences in colour sensitivityIII ATTITUDES TO COLOURS AND COMBINATIONS OF COLOURS; Types and aesthetic values of the attitudes; The apparent heaviness of colours; Relation of the pleasantness of colour combinations to that of the colours seen singly; IV FORM: LINES, SHAPES AND SUGGESTED MOVEMENT; Experiments with simple lines and figures; The influence of suggested movement; The supposed influence of eye-movements; Aesthetic illusions of form; Emotions expressed by lines; Relative attraction of form and colour; V BALANCE AND SYMMETRY; The "golden section" rectangle.
- Grounds for preferences among varied geometrical formsExperiments on balance; The influence of suggested movemen; The effect of interest on symmetry; Symmetry in pictures; Vertical symmetry; VI THE APPEARANCE OF AESTHETIC APPRECIATION IN YOUNG CHILDREN; The appeal of nature; Reports by children on the most beautiful things seen; Photographing children looking at pictures; Sensitivity of children to compositional unity; The sensitivity of very young children to rhythm in graphic form; VII EXPERIMENTS WITH PICTURES; Experiments with children and adults; Thoughts of the artist's skill.
- The beautiful expression of the uglyContent dominance; Types of judgements and their aesthetic values; The apprehension of unity; The difference between pleasingness and beauty; Effects of suggestion; The grouping of pictures; VIII FURTHER EXPERIMENTS WITH PICTURES AND WITH PHOTOGRAPHS OF OBJETS D'ART; Experiments with children, ordinary adults and experts; The influence of the subject of a picture; The Listener research; Relations between emotional types and judgements on pictures; The general factor in appreciation; Emotional expression and aesthetic design; IX SOME REACTIONS TO MODERN ART.
- Aim and plan of experimentsIndividual differences in reactions; Contrasted attitudes to more conventional and to revolutionary types of pictures; Colour dominations versus form; The expression of unconscious impulses and ideas; X MUSICAL INTERVALS AND ATTITUDES TO MUSIC; The whole and the parts; Experiments with intervals; Types of judgements in musical experiments and aesthetic value of the attitudes; Relation between consonance and pleasingness; Sadness of minor versus major intervals; The development in young children of discrimination between concords and discords; Adaptation to discords.