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Routledge
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Routledge
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Originally published in 1972, the aim of Psychology and Visual Aesthetics was to present a study mainly concerned with experimental work on visual aesthetics. From the rather restricted approaches of Fechner, the pioneer of experimental aesthetics, whose book Vorschule der Aesthetik was published in 1876, there had been a spread of interest out of the confines of the psychological laboratory... Read more
Illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: The Psychological Approach 2. Form Perception and Art 3. Haptic Perception and the Art of the Blind 4. Colour Perception and Colour Preferences 5. Colour Vision Defects and Pictorial Art 6. Experiments with Pictures 7. Racial and Cultural Comparisons 8. Children’s Aesthetic Judgments 9. Personality and Aesthetic Preferences 10. Art and Aesthetics, and Future Research. Conclusions. Index.
Biography
Ralph William Pickford (1903-1986) was an English psychologist who served as the first Professor of Psychology at the University of Glasgow from 1955 to 1973.
