04771oam 2200625I 450 991082907690332120240418075504.01-315-70761-61-317-48037-610.4324/9781315707617(CKB)3710000000421759(EBL)3569341(SSID)ssj0001551924(PQKBManifestationID)16171168(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001551924(PQKBWorkID)14812932(PQKB)10482554(MiAaPQ)EBC3569341(OCoLC)910847827(EXLCZ)99371000000042175920180706e20151962 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe experimental psychology of beauty /C.W. Valentine1st ed.London ;New York :Routledge,2015.1 online resource (457 pages)Collected Works of C. W. Valentine ;Volume 7First published in 1962.1-138-89988-7 1-138-89982-8 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.""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 sensitivity""; ""III 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 forms""; ""Experiments 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 ugly""; ""Content 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 experiments""; ""Individual 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""Collected Works of C.W. ValentineAestheticsPsychological aspectsArtsPsychological aspectsAestheticsPsychological aspects.ArtsPsychological aspects.111.85019Valentine C. W(Charles Wilfred),1879-1964.,1628327MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910829076903321The experimental psychology of beauty3965409UNINA