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Beyond aesthetics : investigations into the nature of visual art

Title
Beyond aesthetics : investigations into the nature of visual art / general editor, Don Brothwell ; with a preface by C. H. Waddington.
Publication
London : Thames and Hudson, c1976.

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Additional Authors
Brothwell, Don R.
Description
212 p., [18] leaves of plates : ill.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Art > Psychology
  • Visual perception
  • Art and society
Note
  • Errata slip inserted.
  • Includes indexes.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 198-207.
Contents
Preface / C.H. Waddington -- Towards a working definition of visual art / Don Brothwell -- Primate perception and aesthetics / Andrew Whiten -- Visual art, evolution and environment / Don Brothwell -- The development of visual perception in children / M.D. Vernon -- Visual education for young children / J.M. Pickering -- Visual art : some perspectives from cross-cultural psychology / Marshall H. Segall -- Trompe l'œil to rompe l'œil: vision and art / R.A. Weale -- Defective vision and art / R.W. Pickford -- The artist in the population statistics / Peter Cox -- Psychology, culture and visual art / R.W. Pickford -- The artist and education in art and design in the sixties and the seventies / Jean Creedy -- Art, morals and Western society / H.R. Rookmaaker.
ISBN
0500011478 :
LCCN
76372343 //r91
OCLC
  • ocm02440192
  • SCSB-2114494
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library