The Aesthetics of Emotion: Up the Down Staircase of the Mind-Body

ISBN-13: 9781108463935 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 414 str.

Gerald C. Cupchik

Opis

Argues that relations between mind and body are analogous to those between subject matter and style in art.

Recenzje

'In addition to considering the abstract principles of aesthetics, Cupchik provides interesting real world examples of the artistic process as it is described by a number of contemporary artists, and as it is actualized by their work. The result is a scholarly analysis of the nature of human emotion informing us about the evaluative processes that we bring to any aesthetic appreciation.' Don M. Tucker, American Journal of Psychology

Spis treści

Prologue; 1. Experiences in life and art; 2. Thinking critically about emotion theories; 3. The depth of affective processing; 4. Emotional experiences as reactions; 5. Antecedents of the motivational action models; 6. Emotional phase theory; 7. Neural underpinnings of emotional experiences and feeling-based actions; 8. The aesthetic imagination; 9. Affective processes and aesthetic reception; 10. The 'aesthetics of emotion' as analogy and metaphor; 11. Creative practices of contemporary artists; 12. The cave artist's share; 13. Studies in aesthetic reception; 14. In search of a unified emotion theory; Epilogue.