How We Understand Art: A Cognitive Development Account of Aesthetic Experience

by Michael J. Parsons

Book Overview

The seminal theory of the development of our understanding of the visual arts presented in this book has much in common with the Piagetian theory of cognitive development and the Kohlbergian theory of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521379660
• ISBN13: 9780521379663
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Aesthetic Cognitive Development Explained

As a university level art educator and artist I have found myself referring to this book over and over. I am aware of no better source of the developmental stages of aesthetic awareness. This book is clear and incisive. Anyone who wants to be an artist, is interested in any kind of art criticism, or wishes to teach art would find the information in this book of great value. Parsons explains quite clearly why different people or the same person at different points in that person's life respond differently to the same work of art. No study of aesthetics is complete without this seminal work which brings Piaget's cognitive development theory to bear on art.