Beautiful

An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2009
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781775416135
• Topic: Psychology
• Index: Psychology

What is it that makes us regard one object or artwork as aesthetically pleasing, while considering another to be unattractive? In a series of engaging and well-argued essays, author Vernon Lee tackles the issue of aesthetics from a number of different perspectives.

Table of contents

• THE BEAUTIFUL
• Contents
• Preface and Apology
• Chapter I — The Adjective "Beautiful"
• Chapter II — Contemplative Satisfaction
• Chapter III — Aspects Versus Things
• Chapter IV — Sensations
• Chapter V — Perception of Relations
• Chapter VI — Elements of Shape
• Chapter VII — Facility and Difficulty of Grasping
• Chapter VIII — Subject and Object
• Chapter IX — Empathy
• Chapter X — The Movement of Lines
• Chapter XI — The Character of Shapes
• Chapter XII — From the Shape to the Thing
• Chapter XIII — From the Thing to the Shape
• Chapter XIV — The Aims of Art
• Chapter XV — Attention to Shapes
• Chapter XVI — Information About Things
• Chapter XVII — The Co-Operation of Things and Shap…
• Chapter XVIII — Aesthetic Responsiveness
• Chapter XIX — The Storage and Transfer of Emotion
• Chapter XX — Aesthetic Irradiation and Purificatio…
• Chapter XXI — Conclusion (Evolutional)
• Bibliography
• Endnotes