The Psychology of Contemporary Art

Minissale, Gregory

doi:10.1017/cbo9781139094313

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“…Finally, characteristics of the presentation context include physical and cultural aspects of the museum, display/hanging, frame, lighting, art labels, furniture, movement, viewing distance, viewing time and museum fatigue. While all of these factors might be contributing to differences between art experience in museum and other contexts, to date, the majority of them have remained underexplored (Bitgood et al, 2013;Minissale, 2013;Tröndle et al, 2014;Carbon, 2017).…”

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Viewing Art in Different Contexts

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While aesthetic experiences are not limited to any particular context, their sensorial, cognitive and behavioral properties can be profoundly affected by the circumstances in which they occur. Given the ubiquitous nature of contextual effects in nearly all aspects of behavior, investigations aimed at delineating the context-dependent and contextindependent aspects of aesthetic experience and engagement with aesthetic objects in a diverse range of settings are important in empirical aesthetics. Here, we analyze the viewing behavior of visitors (N = 19) freely viewing 15 paintings in the 20th-century Australian collection room at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. In particular, we focus on how aspects of viewing behavior including viewing distance in the gallery condition and eye gaze measures such as fixation count, total fixation duration and average fixation duration are affected by the artworks' physical characteristics including size and image statistics properties such as Fourier amplitude spectrum, fractal dimension and entropy. In addition, the same artworks were viewed in the laboratory, either scaled to fit most of the screen (N = 22) or to preserve their relative size as in the museum condition (N = 17) to assess the robustness of these relationships across different presentation contexts. We find that the effects of presentation context are modulated by the artworks' physical characteristics.

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“…Because modern or contemporary art commonly has such a marked conceptual component, its full appreciation does not rely solely on perceptual aspects. Modern art is often emotionally and conceptually challenging, puzzling, ambiguous, and it questions our beliefs about reality and art itself (Minissale, ). Thus, it is especially interesting from a psychological perspective for two reasons.…”

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Ten years of a model of aesthetic appreciation and aesthetic judgments : The aesthetic episode – Developments and challenges in empirical aesthetics

Leder

Nadal

2014

British J of Psychology

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About a decade ago, psychology of the arts started to gain momentum owing to a number of drives: technological progress improved the conditions under which art could be studied in the laboratory, neuroscience discovered the arts as an area of interest, and new theories offered a more comprehensive look at aesthetic experiences. Ten years ago, Leder, Belke, Oeberst, and Augustin (2004) proposed a descriptive information-processing model of the components that integrate an aesthetic episode. This theory offered explanations for modern art's large number of individualized styles, innovativeness, and for the diverse aesthetic experiences it can stimulate. In addition, it described how information is processed over the time course of an aesthetic episode, within and over perceptual, cognitive and emotional components. Here, we review the current state of the model, and its relation to the major topics in empirical aesthetics today, including the nature of aesthetic emotions, the role of context, and the neural and evolutionary foundations of art and aesthetics.

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“…Contemporary art challenges traditional notions of beauty and design and, besides being entertaining, can be thought-provoking, puzzling, or perverse (Minissale, 2013). Biennale exhibits require time for thought and comprehension.…”

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Different Hearth, Different Worth: Sustaining an Emerging Festival in the New Cultural City of Singapore

Chang¹,

Mahadevan²

2017

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city faces in trying to sustain an emerging festival. Festival sustainability depends on visitor numbers and the entry fee, among other factors. Thus, this study uses contingent valuation (CV) to focus on the willingness to pay (WTP), as well as the attitudes and preferences, of tourists, local attenders, and potential attenders-that is, local residents who have not been to the festival. These are all critical parties whose patronage keeps festivals running. It is particularly important to understand the Introduction Cultural tourism's rapid growth makes it a major driving force of the urban tourism system (Ark & Richards, 2006). In particular, highly urbanized cities face greater competition from other cities that have caught onto festivalization to develop and broaden the scope of their appeal to tourists (Whyte, Hood, & White, 2012 This study examines some challenges and draws lessons for a new cultural city promoting an emerging festival. This was done by considering the valuation of the festival and its determinants by foreign tourists, domestic tourists, and potential attenders (a group often ignored in the literature). For a young festival, it was encouraging to find that the festival's social value to tourists, local attenders, and potential attenders exceeded the entry fee. Overall, the Biennale was more popular with younger people, and local attenders appreciated the educational dimension of the event. This augurs well for the future of this festival. However, for the festival's sustainability, it is important to strike a balance between catering to preferences of international and local attenders as well as avoid trying to achieve multiple objectives that may lead to a dilution in the focus and identity of the new festival.

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The Psychology of Contemporary Art

Cited by 26 publications

References 213 publications

Viewing Art in Different Contexts

Viewing Art in Different Contexts

Ten years of a model of aesthetic appreciation and aesthetic judgments : The aesthetic episode – Developments and challenges in empirical aesthetics

Different Hearth, Different Worth: Sustaining an Emerging Festival in the New Cultural City of Singapore

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