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How art works : a psychological exploration /
- Title:
- How art works : a psychological exploration /
- Author:
- Winner, Ellen, author.
- Format:
- Book
- Institution:
- Emerson College
- Contents:
- Part one: Introduction. Perennial questions -- Can this be art? -- Part two: Art and emotion. Wordless sounds: hearing emotion in music -- Feeling from music: emotions in the music listener -- Color and form: emotional connotations of visual art -- Emotions in the art museum: why don't we feel like crying? -- Drawn to pain: the paradoxical enjoyment of negative emotion in art -- Part three: Art and judgment. Is it good? Or just familiar? -- Too easy to be good? The effort bias -- Identical! What's wrong with a perfect fake? -- "But my kid could have done that!" -- Part four: What art does, and does not, do for us. Silver bullets: does art make us smarter? -- The lives of others: fiction and empathy -- Does making art improve well-being? -- Part five: Making art. Who makes art and why? -- How art works.
- Online access:
- No online access
- Library holdings:
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Emerson Main Stacks
N71 .W535 2019
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Available