Psychology and Philosophy of Abstract Art Neuro-aesthetics, Perception and Comprehension /

• Main Author: Hackett, Paul M.W (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2016.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Fine arts.; Neuropsychology.; Cognitive psychology.; Cognitive Psychology.; Fine Arts.

This book examines how we perceive and understand abstract art in contrast to artworks that represent reality. Philosophical, psychological and neuroscience research, including the work of philosopher Paul Crowther, are considered and out of these approaches a complex model is developed to account f...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Chapter 1. Defining Two-Dimensional Abstract Art
• Chapter 2. Theorising Perception
• Chapter 3. Expanding Theoretical Complexity
• Chapter 4. Perceptual Content, Process and Categorial Ontologies
• Chapter 5. Mapping Sentence and Partial Order Mereology for Perceiving Abstract Art.