Synopses & Reviews
The Foundations of Aesthetics, Art, and Art Education addresses the need for a single reference that will provide educators and educational psychologists with fundamental information and an appraisal of current research in this challenging area. The contributors to this informative volume assert that aesthetics is a basic human response and that attendant educational issues are best understood from the perspective of the social and behavioral sciences--pyschology, sociology, and biology. They present the latest theoretical and empirical knowledge of the biological, social, cognitive, and philosophical bases of aesthetics as it relates to the teaching of the arts. The introductory chapters review psycho-biological and sociological perspectives of aesthetics. These are followed by chapters discussing the psychological dimensions of aesthetics, including creativity, personality, visual thinking, problem finding, and developmental processes.
Review
[R]eading this book was an enlightening experience. The authors identify a variety of issues important to many disciplines.Contemporary Psychology
About the Author
FRANK H. FARLEY is Professor of Education and Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.RONALD W. NEPERUD is in the Department of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Table of Contents
Part One: Biological Bases
Aesthetics, Psychobiology, and Cognition by Colin Martindale
Analog Art and Digital Art: A Brain-Hemisphere Critique of Modern Painting by Paul Vitz
Part Two: Psychological Bases
Creativity and Problem Finding in Art by M. Csikzentmihalyi and J.w. Getzels
Personality and Scientific Aesthetics by H.J. Eysenck
Part Three: Philosophical and Social Foundations
Aesthetics as Foundations of Art Education by H.S. Broudy
On the Deschooling Artists, or, the Meaning and Functions of the New Avant-Garde by Stefan Morawski
Part Four: Issues in Education
Cultural Dimensions in the Teaching of Art by June King McFee
A Propositional View of Aesthetic Experienceing for Research and Teaching in Art Education by Ronald W. Neperud
The Significance of the Computer in Art by Edward R. Pope
Programmed Paintings: Elementary School Children's Computer-Generated Designs by Joachim F. Wohlwill and Suzanne D. Wills