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Autore: |
Valentine C. W (Charles Wilfred), <1879-1964., >
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Titolo: |
The experimental psychology of beauty / / C.W. Valentine
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Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (457 pages) |
Disciplina: | 111.85019 |
701.17 | |
Soggetto topico: | Aesthetics - Psychological aspects |
Arts - Psychological aspects | |
Note generali: | First published in 1962. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Nota di contenuto: | ""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"" | |
Titolo autorizzato: | The experimental psychology of beauty ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-315-70761-6 |
1-317-48037-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910829076903321 |
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