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Psychology of Art

Psychology of Art

Lev S. Vygotsky
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Vygotsky opened up an original field in the science of psychology, based on the socio-historical theory of the nature of man's consciousness.

This work, now translated into English for the first time, approaches the study of art from a psychological basis. However, Vygotsky's view is free of the old subjective-empirical outlook. His method, while objective and analytical, found its basis in the reasoning that to analyze the structure of artistic creation one must recreate the total reaction the work arouses. This novel concept motivated Vygotsky to evolve the means by which artistic accomplishments could be examined and the elements of their validity "revealed."

The Psychology of Art discusses the literary genre in its classical forms—the fable, the epic, the short story, and Shakespearean tragedy. The heightened levels of perception and feeling that are created by great literature and drama are discussed by Vygotsky with clarity and conviction.

Many of the appraisals in this work resulted from Vygotsky's reaction to the fallacious "solutions" proposed by the one-sided, traditional views of the literary critics of his time. An entire chapter, "Art as Technique," investigates and expresses his contradistinctive views of the formalistic view of the nature of art. For Vygotsky, form did not/could not exist independently as a valid dimension—form appeared only in relation to the medium or the material it incarnates.

Vygotsky's presentation of his thesis in The Psychology of Art is a logical procession of his basic thoughts. In the first chapter, "The Psychological Problem of Art," he clarifies the major pitfall of criticism up to his day, where he points out: "The fundamental error of experimental aesthetics consists in starting from the wrong end, that of aesthetic pleasure and aesthetic appraisal, all the while intentionally ignoring the fact that both pleasure and appraisal may be arbitrary, secondary, or even irrelevant features of aesthetic behavior." From here he goes on to investigate the psychological premises of art.

In viewing a work of art as "a combination of aesthetic symbols aimed at arousing emotion in people," Vygotsky proceeded to analyze these symbols and recreate the basic, "impersonal" components that make up the psychology of the work—without specific references to author-creator or reader-subject—examining only the elements of form and material that are combined in the work. For example, in his chapter on Hamlet Vygotsky examines the structure from "subjective" and "objective" viewpoints, presents the problems of "identification" of the hero, and discusses the play in its various levels of consciousness.

Essentially a work of synthesis, The Psychology of Art laid the foundations for a new science of art, and as such is a major contribution to its study.
Language
English
Pages
352
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
MIT Press (MA)
Release
August 30, 1971
ISBN
026222013X
ISBN 13
9780262220132

Psychology of Art

Lev S. Vygotsky
4.1/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Vygotsky opened up an original field in the science of psychology, based on the socio-historical theory of the nature of man's consciousness.

This work, now translated into English for the first time, approaches the study of art from a psychological basis. However, Vygotsky's view is free of the old subjective-empirical outlook. His method, while objective and analytical, found its basis in the reasoning that to analyze the structure of artistic creation one must recreate the total reaction the work arouses. This novel concept motivated Vygotsky to evolve the means by which artistic accomplishments could be examined and the elements of their validity "revealed."

The Psychology of Art discusses the literary genre in its classical forms—the fable, the epic, the short story, and Shakespearean tragedy. The heightened levels of perception and feeling that are created by great literature and drama are discussed by Vygotsky with clarity and conviction.

Many of the appraisals in this work resulted from Vygotsky's reaction to the fallacious "solutions" proposed by the one-sided, traditional views of the literary critics of his time. An entire chapter, "Art as Technique," investigates and expresses his contradistinctive views of the formalistic view of the nature of art. For Vygotsky, form did not/could not exist independently as a valid dimension—form appeared only in relation to the medium or the material it incarnates.

Vygotsky's presentation of his thesis in The Psychology of Art is a logical procession of his basic thoughts. In the first chapter, "The Psychological Problem of Art," he clarifies the major pitfall of criticism up to his day, where he points out: "The fundamental error of experimental aesthetics consists in starting from the wrong end, that of aesthetic pleasure and aesthetic appraisal, all the while intentionally ignoring the fact that both pleasure and appraisal may be arbitrary, secondary, or even irrelevant features of aesthetic behavior." From here he goes on to investigate the psychological premises of art.

In viewing a work of art as "a combination of aesthetic symbols aimed at arousing emotion in people," Vygotsky proceeded to analyze these symbols and recreate the basic, "impersonal" components that make up the psychology of the work—without specific references to author-creator or reader-subject—examining only the elements of form and material that are combined in the work. For example, in his chapter on Hamlet Vygotsky examines the structure from "subjective" and "objective" viewpoints, presents the problems of "identification" of the hero, and discusses the play in its various levels of consciousness.

Essentially a work of synthesis, The Psychology of Art laid the foundations for a new science of art, and as such is a major contribution to its study.
Language
English
Pages
352
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
MIT Press (MA)
Release
August 30, 1971
ISBN
026222013X
ISBN 13
9780262220132

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