Emerging Visions of the Aesthetic Process : In Psychology, Semiology, and Philosophy (Paperback)

1. Daniel Berlyne and disinterested criticism: inter- and intra-disciplinary discourse John Furedy; Part I. Visual Aesthetics: 2. But is it science? Rudolf Arnheim; 3. The 'frame' as a key to visual perception Nycole Paquin; 4. Aesthetics and visual semiotics Fernande Saint-Martin; 5. The complementarity of art and design Tsion Avital; 6. From perception to production: a multileveled analysis of the aesthetic process Gerald C. Cupchik; 7. A science of vision for visual art Francois Molnar; 8. Sweetness and light: psychological aesthetics and sentimental art Andrew Winston; 9. Psychobiography and visual creativity: four pattern Pavel Machotka; 10. Cognitive profiles of artists Ellen Winner and M. Beth Casey; 11. Assessing knowledge in the visual arts George W. Hardiman, Feng J. Liu and Ted Zernich; Part II. Literary and Other Aesthetic Processes: 12. The beginning of a new psychology: Vygotsky's psychology of art Vladimir S. Sobkin and Dmitry A. Leontiev; 13. Empirical aesthetics in the USSR: selected topics Dmitry A. Leontiev, Vladimir M. Petrov and Vladimir S. Sobkin; 14. The psychology of literature: a social-cognitive approach Janos Laszlo; 15. Why literature is not enough, or: literary studies as media studies Siegfried J. Schmidt; 16. Uncovering the laws of literary history Colin Martindale; 17. Evolution of art and brain asymmetry: a review of empirical investigations Vladimir M. Petrov; Part III. Play: 18. A neurophysiological theory of play Istvan Bende and Endre Grastyan; 19. Paradoxes of children's play in Vygotsky's theory Elena A. Bugrimenko and Elena O. Smirnova; 20. The personal component in playing interfaces Moshe D. Caspi.