The Subject of Aesthetics

A Psychology of Art and Experience
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-30871-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 45, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 249 g

Reihe: Consciousness, Literature and the Arts

How does art influence us? In The Subject of Aesthetics, Tone Roald approaches aesthetics as a psychological discipline, showing how works of art challenge our habitual ways of perceiving the world. While aesthetics has traditionally been a philosophical discipline, Roald discusses how it is very much alive in the realm of psychology – a qualitative psychology of lived experience. But what actually constitutes an aesthetics of lived experience? The book answers that question by analyzing people’s own engagement with visual art. What emerges is that the object of aesthetics is indeed the subject.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roald, Tone

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstpsychologie und -soziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Über Autor(innen)

Tone Roald, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology at University of Copenhagen. She has published and edited several books and articles on aesthetics, including Art and Identity. Essays on the Aesthetic Creation of Mind (Rodopi, 2013).