This book examines how we perceive and understand abstract art in contrast to artworks that represent reality. Philosophical, psychological and neuroscience research, including the work of philosopher Paul Crowther, are considered and out of these approaches a complex model is developed to account for this experience. The understanding embodied in this model is rooted in facet theory, mapping sentences and partially ordered analyses, which together provide a comprehensive understanding of the perceptual experience of abstract art.

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Emerson College, Boston, USA

Paul M.W. Hackett

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Paul Hackett works at Emerson College, USA and is an academic visitor in the philosophy department, Oxford University, UK. He is a psychologist with research interests that cross other disciplines, including philosophy and neuroscience with a concentration on categorial behaviour.

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Book Title: Psychology and Philosophy of Abstract Art
Book Subtitle: Neuro-aesthetics, Perception and Comprehension
Authors: Paul M.W. Hackett
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48332-4
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-48331-7Published: 15 June 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-48332-4Published: 25 May 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 140
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cognitive Psychology, Arts, Philosophy, general, Aesthetics, Fine Arts

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

Front Matter

Defining Two-Dimensional Abstract Art

Theorizing Perception

Expanding Theoretical Complexity

Perceptual Content, Process and Categorial Ontologies

Mapping Sentence and Partial Order Mereology for Perceiving Abstract Art

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