Subject of Aesthetics
Subtitle: A Psychology of Art and Experience
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9789004308718
Subjects: Aesthetics
Description: 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.