How Art Works A Psychological Exploration
- Can anything be art?
- Do we experience "real" emotions from the arts?
- Why do we seek out and even cherish sorrow and fear from art when we go out of our way to avoid these very emotions in real life?
- How do we decide what is good art? Do aesthetic judgments have any objective truth value?
- Why do we devalue fakes even if we -- indeed, even the experts--- can't tell them apart from originals?
- Does fiction enhance our empathy and understanding of others? Is art-making therapeutic? Others are "common sense" questions that laypersons wonder about. Examples include: - Does learning to play music raise a child's IQ?
- Is modern art something my kid could do?
- Is talent a matter of nature or nurture? This book examines puzzles about the arts wherever their provenance - as long as there is empirical research using the methods of social science (interviews, experimentation, data collection, statistical analysis) that can shed light on these questions. The examined research reveals how ordinary
people think about these questions, and why they think the way they do - an inquiry referred to as intuitive aesthetics. The book shows how psychological research on the arts has shed light on and often offered surprising answers to such questions.
Publisher Name | Oxford University Press USA |
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Author Name | Hagendorf, Col |
Format | Audio |
Bisac Subject Major | ART |
Language | NG |
Isbn 10 | 0190863358 |
Isbn 13 | 9780190863357 |
Target Age Group | min:NA, max:NA |
Dimensions | 00.95" H x 00.06" L x 40.00" W |
Page Count | 320 |
Ellen Winner is Professor of Psychology at Boston College and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education. She directs the Arts and Mind Lab, which focuses on cognition in the arts in typical and gifted children as well as adults. She received the Rudolf Arnheim
Award for Outstanding Research by a Senior Scholar in Psychology and the Arts from Division 10 in 2000.