The Beautiful: An Introduction to Psychological AestheticsLee, Vernon
Philosophy
The Beautiful: An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics
Lee, Vernon
Aesthetics; Form (Aesthetics); Psychology, Applied
For art-evolutional questions consult:
IX. _Haddon._ Evolution in Art, 1895.
X. _Yrjö Hirn._ Origins of Art, Macmillan, 1900.
XI. _Levinstein._ Kinderzeichnungen, Leipzig, 1905.
XII. _Loewy._ Nature in early Greek Art (translation), Duckworth,
1907.
XIII. _Delia Seta._ Religione e Arte Figurata, Rome, 1912.
XIV. _Spearing._ The Childhood of Art, 1913.
XV. _Jane Harrison._ Ancient Art and Ritual, 1913.
INDEX
Aesthetic:
aridity, 136-7;
imperative, 99-100;
irradiation, 147-52;
purification, 149-52;
responsiveness, active nature of, 128-36;
habit and familiarity affecting, 134-6
Altamira cave frescoes, 95
Art:
differential characteristic of, 116-18;
non-aesthetic aims of, 99-100, 137-8; utility of, 153-5
Aspect:
aesthetics concerned with, 15, 21, 105;
shape the determining feature of, 26-8
Attention, a factor distinguishing perception from sensation, 32
Balfour, H., 95
Beautiful:
aesthetic irradiation proceeding from use of adjective, 147-8;
attitude implied by use of adjective, 2-7, 18-19;
empathy the chief factor of preference, 67-8;
implies desire for reiterated perception, 53-4
Botticelli, 83
Brahms' _German Requiem,_ 150
Browning's _Abt Vogler,_ 141
Coleridge's _Ode to Dejection,_ 131
Colour, passive reception of, 23-4, 29
Contemplative satisfaction marking aesthetic attitude, 8-15
Correggio's _Danae,_ 151
Cubic Existence:
perception of, 85;
pictorial suggestion of, importance attached to, discussed, 101-5
_Discobolus,_ 115
Einfühlung, 59;
misinterpretations of, 66-7
Emotion, storage and transfer of, 139-46
Empathy, 61-69;
complexity of movements of lines, 78-83;
movements of lines, 70-77;
second element of shape-perception, 59-60
Extension existing in perception, 35-8
Fechner, 130
Hildebrand, 102, 118
Inner Mimicry, 74-5
James, W., 153
Keats' _Grecian Urn,_ 77
Levinstein, 96
Lipps, 66
Locomotion of Things, distinction between, and empathic
movement of lines, 111-16
Lotze, 66
Mantegna, 82
Memory:
a factor distinguishing perception from sensation, 32;
in perception, 40-1
Michel Angelo, 114, 122
Movement of Lines, distinction between, and locomotion of Things,
111-16; _see also_ Empathy
Object of Perception, subject's activities merged in, 57, 58
Perception:
active process involved in, 29-34, 128-9;
distinguished from sensation, 32;
subject and object of, 55-60
Raphael's _Heliodorus,_ 119
Relaxation an element of form-perception, 42
Rembrandt, 122
Rythm, 42-5
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