The Aesthetics of Emotion
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The Aesthetics of Emotion

Up the Down Staircase of the Mind-Body

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Aesthetics of Emotion

Up the Down Staircase of the Mind-Body

About this book

Gerald C. Cupchik builds a bridge between science and the humanities, arguing that interactions between mind and body in everyday life are analogous to relations between subject matter and style in art. According to emotional phase theory, emotional reactions emerge in a 'perfect storm' whereby meaningful situations evoke bodily memories that unconsciously shape and unify the experience. Similarly, in expressionist or impressionist painting, an evocative visual style can spontaneously colour the experience and interpretation of subject matter. Three basic situational themes encompass complementary pairs of primary emotions: attachment (happiness - sadness), assertion (fear - anger), and absorption (interest - disgust). Action episodes, in which a person adapts to challenges or seeks to realize goals, benefit from energizing bodily responses which focus attention on the situation while providing feedback, in the form of pleasure or pain, regarding success or failure. In high representational paintings, style is transparent, making it easier to fluently identify subject matter.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781107024458
eBook ISBN
9781316540541
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Social Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of contents
  8. List of figures
  9. Preface
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Prologue
  12. Chapter 1 Experiences in life and in art
  13. Chapter 2 Thinking critically about emotion theories
  14. Chapter 3 The depth of affective processing
  15. Chapter 4 Emotional experiences as reactions
  16. Chapter 5 Antecedents of the motivational action models
  17. Chapter 6 Emotional Phase Theory
  18. Chapter 7 Neural underpinnings of emotional experiences and feeling-based actions
  19. Chapter 8 The aesthetic imagination
  20. Chapter 9 Affective processes and aesthetic reception
  21. Chapter 10 The ā€˜ā€˜aesthetics of emotionā€™ā€™ as analogy and metaphor
  22. Chapter 11 Creative practices of contemporary artists
  23. Chapter 12 The cave artistā€™s share
  24. Chapter 13 Studies in aesthetic reception
  25. Chapter 14 In search of a unified emotion theory
  26. References
  27. Index
  28. Series list