The Beautiful: An Introduction to Psychological AestheticsLee, Vernon
Philosophy
The Beautiful: An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics
Lee, Vernon
Aesthetics; Form (Aesthetics); Psychology, Applied
Semper, hypothesis regarding shape-preference, 94
Sensations:
distinguished from perceptions, 32;
perception of relation between, 29-30
Shape:
character of, 78-83;
contemplation of, its intermittent but recurrent character, 106-10;
determines contemplation of an aspect, 26-8;
elements of, 35-47;
Empathy an element of perception of, 59;
facility and difficulty of grasping, 48-54;
a perception, 29-34;
practical causes regarding evolution of, 90-4;
preference, its evolution, 94-7;
and Things, their co-operation, 117-27;
thinking away from, to Things, 131-2, 84-9
Sound, passive reception of, 23-4, 29
Subject of perception, extent of awareness of self, 57-9
Symmetry, 42-3
Tension, an element of form-perception, 42
Things and Shapes, their cooperation, 117-27;
thoughts about, entering into shape-contemplation, 84-9
Third Dimension, locomotor nature of knowledge of, 85-6, 101
Titchener, 59
Vinci, Leonardo da, 83, 145-6
Vischer, 66
Watts, G. F., 46
Whole and Parts, perception of relation of, 48-54
Wilde's _Salome,_ 150
Wundt, 42, 66
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