How we understand art : a cognitive developmental account of aesthetic experience /
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1987.
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| ISBN: | 0521329493 9780521329491 0521379660 9780521379663 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Cognitive developmental theory
- Assumptions about art
- Organization of the book : topics and stages
- Methodology
- Overview of the five stages. Favoritism ; Beauty and realism ; Expressiveness ; Style and form ; Autonomy ; Color ; Favorites ; The idea of pictorial representation ; Association with the subject ; The enjoyment of paintings
- The subject. Beauty ; The indefinite other ; Realism ; Schematic and photographic realism ; Excuses ; The subjective theme
- Expression. Feelings as behaviors ; Picturing feelings ; Connecting the artist with the painting ; Conceptions of expression ; Subjectivity ; The individuality of expression ; Interpretation ; The corrigibility of interpretation ; The publicity of the painting
- The medium, form, and style. Difficulty and skill ; Modern art ; The expressiveness of abstract art ; Expressiveness and the medium ; Searching for meaning ; Technique ; Style ; Detecting and understanding style ; The expression of nonsubjective qualities ; The public meanings of the medium ; The style of Renoir
- Judgment. The objectivity of judgment ; The natural criteria reversed ; The relativism of taste ; The criterion of genuine feeling ; The colors of individual experience ; The possibilities of agreement ; The offering of reasons ; Relativism and the artworld ; Questioning experience ; The question of style ; Reasons for judgments.