Psychology of art appreciation

[csidney]

I am interested in the psychology of art creation and appreciation with special emphasis on photography. My photographic colleagues are not much interested in this line of thought, but I hope some of you are. I wonder what science can tell us about the hardwiring of our brains for judging composition, etc. I have found Gazzaniga's ideas in his book "Human" very helpful. I need more references and links.

 

Excerpts from my writings on this subject have been posted by Michael Reichmann at http://luminous-landscape.com/essays/art2.shtml

Also, I BLOG about science in photography at photophys.com. Please visit.

[StringJunky]

You might find this link useful:

 

http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&q=author:%22Gombrich%22+intitle:%22Art+and+illusion:+A+study+in+the+psychology+of+pictorial+...%22+&um=1&ie=UTF-8&oi=scholarr

 

It's a list from the National Library Board which you download as a .pdf . It seems to have titles for books that you may be interested in.

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The branch of science that may give you some answers regarding the way the physiology of our brains governs the way we think and perceive the world is Biopsychology.