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  2. Art as Experience - Wikipedia

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    Art and (aesthetic) mythology, according to Dewey, is an attempt to find light in a great darkness. Art appeals directly to sense and the sensuous imagination, and many aesthetic and religious experiences occur as the result of energy and material used to expand and intensify the experience of life.

  3. Art and emotion - Wikipedia

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    In psychology of art, the relationship between art and emotion has newly been the subject of extensive study thanks to the intervention of esteemed art historian Alexander Nemerov. Emotional or aesthetic responses to art have previously been viewed as basic stimulus response, but new theories and research have suggested that these experiences ...

  4. Psychology of art - Wikipedia

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    The Psychology of Art (1925) by Lev Vygotsky (1896–1934) is another classical work. Richard Müller-Freienfels was another important early theorist. [8] The work of Theodor Lipps, a Munich-based research psychologist, played an important role in the early development of the concept of art psychology in the early decade of the twentieth century.

  5. Activating the senses: 'Geohaptics' evokes major ... - AOL

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    Open at 516 Arts, the exhibition "Geohaptics: Sensing Climate" seeks to activate the senses through the beauty of art. The title stems from a made-up word, curator Daniela Naomi Molnar acknowledged.

  6. Synesthesia in art - Wikipedia

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    The phrase synesthesia in art has historically referred to a wide variety of artists' experiments that have explored the co-operation of the senses (e.g. seeing and hearing; the word synesthesia is from the Ancient Greek σύν (syn), "together," and αἴσθησις (aisthēsis), "sensation") in the genres of visual music, music visualization, audiovisual art, abstract film, and intermedia ...

  7. Perceptual art - Wikipedia

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    In practice, perceptual art may be interpreted as the engagement of multi-sensory experiential stimuli combined with the multiplicity of interpretive meanings on the part of an observer. Sometimes, the role of observer is obscured as members of the public may unwittingly or unknowingly be participants in the creation of the artwork itself.

  8. Perception - Wikipedia

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    A mathematical theory of perception-in-action has been devised and investigated in many forms of controlled movement, and has been described in many different species of organism using the General Tau Theory. According to this theory, "tau information", or time-to-goal information is the fundamental percept in perception.

  9. Brian Massumi - Wikipedia

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    It carries a sense of vitality ("vitality affect") uniquely associated with the event. This supplementation of sensuous experience constitutes a "surplus value of life." Massumi's theories reject representational accounts of thought and perception, as well as any mind/body dualism.