Psychology and Philosophy of Abstract Art Neuro-aesthetics, Percepti
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 ap
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Paul M.W. Hackett
Psychology and Philosophy of Abstract Art
Paul M.W. Hackett
Psychology and Philosophy of Abstract Art Neuro-aesthetics, Perception and Comprehension
Paul M.W. Hackett Emerson College Boston, Massachusetts, USA
ISBN 978-1-137-48331-7 ISBN 978-1-137-48332-4 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-48332-4
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I dedicate this book about perceiving abstraction to Spike Milligan and posthumously thank him not only for his humour, but also the rational insight he provided. He was often thought mad, including by himself perhaps. Milligan possessed a perception of the world that was complex with intricate and convoluted turns. Our injudiciousness blinds us from appreciating the rationality of his responses of despair: all else is illusion.
PREFACE
In Fine Art and Perceptual Neuroscience (Hackett, 2013), I first proposed that the facet theory and mapping sentence approach could be used to investigate artistic understanding, and the appreciation and creation of art. In later writing, I more generally suggested that a philosophical appreciation of the mereological and ontological structure of fine art is created when using mapping sentences embodied in a facet theoretical rubric. Whilst penning my earlier books two major strands of writing came to the fore. This present book deals with these strands that may be summarized as: the conception of a complex space within which abstract two-dimensional visual art exists and the necessarily simultaneously fragmented and unified notions of the perception
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