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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Brill
ISBN-10
9004308717
ISBN-13
9789004308718
eBay Product ID (ePID)
217539289
Product Key Features
Author
Tone Roald
Format
Trade Paperback (US), Paperback
Language
English
Subject
The Arts: General & Référence
Type
Textbook
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Leiden
Issn
1879-6044
Series Part/Volume Number
45
Series Title
Consciousness, Literature and the Arts
Author Biography
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).