• DOI:10.2190/B637-1041-2635-16NN
Corpus ID: 143506308

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={C. Martindale},
  journal={Empirical Studies of the Arts},
  year={2007},
  volume={25},
  pages={121 - 141}
}

• C. Martindale
• Published 2007
• Psychology
• Empirical Studies of the Arts

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… Expand

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