Beyond aesthetics : investigations into the nature of visual art /
Contributor(s): Brothwell, Don R
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Publisher: London : Thames and Hudson, c1976Description: 212 p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0500011478 :; 9780500011478 :.Subject(s): Art -- Psychology | Visual perception | Art and societyDDC classification: 701.18 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Errata slip inserted.
Includes indexes.
Bibliography: p. 198-207.
Preface / C.H. Waddington -- Towards a working definition of visual art / Don Brothwell -- Primate perception and aesthetics / Andrew Whiten -- Visual art, evolution and environment / Don Brothwell -- The development of visual perception in children / M.D. Vernon -- Visual education for young children / J.M. Pickering -- Visual art : some perspectives from cross-cultural psychology / Marshall H. Segall -- Trompe l'œil to rompe l'œil: vision and art / R.A. Weale -- Defective vision and art / R.W. Pickford -- The artist in the population statistics / Peter Cox -- Psychology, culture and visual art / R.W. Pickford -- The artist and education in art and design in the sixties and the seventies / Jean Creedy -- Art, morals and Western society / H.R. Rookmaaker.
Collects essays revealing that art and the artist are open to meaningful scientific study.