A Transformation Theory of Aesthetics

ISBN-13: 9781138651401 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 256 str.

Michael Stephan

Opis

This book develops a theory of picture perception and aesthetic response, arguing that images can generate in us a complex pattern of mental changes, or transformations. It is essential reading to those seriously involved in linking the arts and cognitive sciences.

Spis treści

List of Figures;  Foreword;  Introduction;  1. The Biological and Procedural Bases of Neuropsychology  2. The Experimental Evidence  3. The Possible Origins of Cerebral Specialization  4. The Right-Hemisphere Cognitive Paradigm  5. Children’s Drawing  6. The Languages of Art  7. A Transformational Theory of Aesthetics  8. Art and Aesthetic Experience  9. The Transformational Planes;  Appendix: Psychoanalysis and Art;  Notes;  Bibliography;  Index

O autorze

Michael Stephan