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Questions for the Psychology of the Artful Mind
This paper reconstructs the “Arnheim’s puzzle” over the psychology of art. It is argued that the long-established psychological theories of art do not account properly for the observable variability of art, which provide the phenomena of interest whose psychological factors need to be discovered. Th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6969930/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31766542 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vision3040067 |
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description | This paper reconstructs the “Arnheim’s puzzle” over the psychology of art. It is argued that the long-established psychological theories of art do not account properly for the observable variability of art, which provide the phenomena of interest whose psychological factors need to be discovered. The general purpose principles of such theories, the ensuing selective sample of art phenomena, and assumption of conventional properties of aesthetic experience make the predictions and the findings of the theories unrepresentative of art. From the discussion of examples drawn from contemporary visual arts and the presentation of the debate on the emergence of the cognitive capacities of art in paleoanthropology, a construct is presented on the specificity of the cognitive capacities of art and its anchoring to perception, which solves the puzzle and has implications for research and teaching psychology of art. |
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spelling | pubmed-69699302020-02-04 Questions for the Psychology of the Artful Mind Calì, Carmelo Vision (Basel) Article This paper reconstructs the “Arnheim’s puzzle” over the psychology of art. It is argued that the long-established psychological theories of art do not account properly for the observable variability of art, which provide the phenomena of interest whose psychological factors need to be discovered. The general purpose principles of such theories, the ensuing selective sample of art phenomena, and assumption of conventional properties of aesthetic experience make the predictions and the findings of the theories unrepresentative of art. From the discussion of examples drawn from contemporary visual arts and the presentation of the debate on the emergence of the cognitive capacities of art in paleoanthropology, a construct is presented on the specificity of the cognitive capacities of art and its anchoring to perception, which solves the puzzle and has implications for research and teaching psychology of art. MDPI 2019-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6969930/ /pubmed/31766542 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vision3040067 Text en © 2019 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Calì, Carmelo Questions for the Psychology of the Artful Mind |
title | Questions for the Psychology of the Artful Mind |
title_full | Questions for the Psychology of the Artful Mind |
title_fullStr | Questions for the Psychology of the Artful Mind |
title_full_unstemmed | Questions for the Psychology of the Artful Mind |
title_short | Questions for the Psychology of the Artful Mind |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6969930/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31766542 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vision3040067 |
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