The Relationship Between Aesthetic Value and Cognitive Value

Aumann, Antony

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“…Instead, art's value is implicit or even regarded as self-contained-art is valuable for art's sake. While discussion about art's value has been a topic of philosophical conjecture, scholars are divided over the nature of art's broader value (Aumann, 2014;Lamarque, 2006).…”

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Can art promote understanding? A review of the psychology and neuroscience of aesthetic cognitivism.

Christensen¹,

Cardillo²,

Chatterjee³

2023

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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Can art promote understanding? A review of the psychology and neuroscience of aesthetic cognitivism.

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Cardillo²,

Chatterjee³

2023

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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“…According to Aumann (2014) aesthetic value depends on aesthetic properties such as beauty, grace, sadness, ugliness, elegance enables one to assess an artwork properly. He further mentioned that an object can have aesthetic value whether it has good or bad properties.…”

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Akwantukese Festival of the New Juaben People: The Artforms and Their Aesthetics

2020

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Aesthetics play a vital role in the celebration of Akwantukese festival. In the course of the festival celebration, several visual art forms are seen and these art forms give aesthetic value to observers. The aesthetic value associated to the visual art forms in the festival can aid people acquire knowledge and satisfaction. Yet, very few people actively participate in the celebration and do a critical observation of these visual art forms. The study is therefore aimed at focusing the aesthetic values of the visual art forms in the Akwantukese festival celebration. The objective(s) of the study are: (i)to identify the visual art forms embedded in the festival celebration. (ii)to describe the visual art forms and bring out their aesthetic values. Phenomenology and descriptive methods under qualitative research approach was employed in this study. The purposive sampling technique was used to select 30 respondents for the research and the main research instruments used for data collection were interviews and observations. The results indicate that there are a lot of visual art forms seen in Akwantukese festival celebration that have aesthetic values and can be appreciated by all and sundry. The research concludes that some of the art forms used during the festival celebration have philosophical and symbolical meanings that express emotions such as happiness, dreadfulness, sadness and others. It is therefore recommended that the chiefs and the people of New Juaben Traditional area should try as much as possible to fully participate in the festival celebration in order to see the various visual art forms and appreciate their aesthetic values. Again the festival should be made attractive to the international communities in order to promote tourism.

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“…Conceptual art is motivated primarily by its cognitive qualities (Chatterjee, 2014;Goldie, 2007); ideas are typically more important than their sensorial aesthetic properties. In the narrative arts, tone and style are aesthetic qualities that convey emotion and relevant background for a scene or character (Aumann, 2014). Similarly, colors and brush strokes in paintings guide attention and affect cognition (Seeley, 2015).…”

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“…Lamarque's argument against aesthetic cognitivism is that artistic truths may be relevant to the artwork, but the value of these truths are irrelevant to their aesthetic properties. Some cognitivists, however, argue that artistic truths are inseparable from the aesthetic properties of the artwork, making their presence an intrinsic part of their value (Aumann, 2014;Gaut, 2006).…”

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Can art promote understanding? A review of the psychology and neuroscience of aesthetic cognitivism

Christensen¹,

Cardillo²,

Chatterjee³

2021

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Art promotes knowledge and understanding. Philosophers have debated this proposition, which is referred to as aesthetic cognitivism. Despite its intuitive appeal, few empirical investigations have tested the validity of this claim. In our review, we outline philosophical arguments for and against aesthetic cognitivism. Then, we discuss how empirical aesthetics and neuroscience can contribute to conversations about aesthetic cognitivism, with a focus on visual art. We propose that engagement is necessary to acquire new knowledge and understanding, describe motivational states associated with engagement, and posit who is most likely to experience these states and engage with art. We conclude with a discussion on how aesthetic cognitivism might be measured and modeled. By grounding aesthetic cognitivism in empirical aesthetics, researchers can construct testable hypotheses about art’s role in promoting knowledge and understanding.

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The Relationship Between Aesthetic Value and Cognitive Value

Cited by 6 publications

References 5 publications

Can art promote understanding? A review of the psychology and neuroscience of aesthetic cognitivism.

Can art promote understanding? A review of the psychology and neuroscience of aesthetic cognitivism.

Akwantukese Festival of the New Juaben People: The Artforms and Their Aesthetics

Can art promote understanding? A review of the psychology and neuroscience of aesthetic cognitivism

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