The Foundations of Aesthetics, Art & Art Education

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface vii
• PART ONE BIOLOGICAL BASES 1
• Introduction 3
• 1: Aesthetics, Psychobiology, and Cognition 7
• REFERENCES 34
• 2: Analog Art and Digital Art: A Brain-Hemisphere Critique of Modern Painting 43
• REFERENCES 81
• PART TWO PSYCHOLOGICAL BASES 87
• Introduction 89
• Creativity and Problem Finding in Art 91
• REFERENCES 115
• 4: Personality and Scientific Aesthetics 117
• REFERENCES 151
• PART THREE PHILOSOPHICAL AND SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS 161

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface vii
• PART ONE BIOLOGICAL BASES 1
• Introduction 3
• 1: Aesthetics, Psychobiology, and Cognition 7
• REFERENCES 34
• 2: Analog Art and Digital Art: A Brain-Hemisphere Critique of Modern Painting 43
• REFERENCES 81
• PART TWO PSYCHOLOGICAL BASES 87
• Introduction 89
• Creativity and Problem Finding in Art 91
• REFERENCES 115
• 4: Personality and Scientific Aesthetics 117
• REFERENCES 151
• PART THREE PHILOSOPHICAL AND SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS 161
• Introduction 165
• 5: Aesthetics as Foundations of Art Education 167
• NOTES 185
• 6: On the Deschooling Artists, or, the Meaning and Functions of the New Avant-Garde 189
• PART FOUR ISSUES IN EDUCATION 219
• Introduction 221
• Cultural Dimensions in the Teaching of Art 225
• Cultural Dimensions in the Teaching of Art 225
• REFERENCES 265
• 8: A Propositional View of Aesthetic Experiencing for Research and Teaching in Art Education 273
• REFERENCES 313
• 9: The Significance of the Computer in Art 321
• 10: Programmed Paintings: Elementary School Children's Computer-generated Designs Joachim F. Wohlwill and Suzanne D. Wills 337
• NOTES 361
• NOTES 362
• Bibliography 365
• Index 403
• About the Editors and Contributors 417