Recent Trends in the Psychological Study of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
@article{Martindale2007RecentTI, title={Recent Trends in the Psychological Study of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts}, author={Colin Martindale}, journal={Empirical Studies of the Arts}, year={2007}, volume={25}, pages={121 - 141} }
In order to explain what has happened in psychological aesthetics and the study of genius, a brief overview of the history of psychology since the nineteenth century is given. There has been a movement from grand theories and the beginnings of experimental aesthetics though behaviorism, which was a catastrophic era for the study of aesthetics, to a sort of renaissance marked by the emergence of cognitive psychology. Across the 25 years during which Empirical Studies of the Arts has been…
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