Experimental Aesthetics

Pre-requisites: Master level course on the psychology of art, or equivalent knowledge.

Course objectives: Training students for gaining of basic understanding of the historical foundations of contemporary themes and experimental aesthetics.

Course description: Major phenomena and theories of psychology of aesthetic preference and aesthetic experience with an emphasis on experimental research methodology are exemined on deepened level. Aesthetic phenomena are processed from perceptual, cognitive and affective aspects, the physical assembly of aesthetic stimulation, its mathematical description, physiological levels of processing and the structure of aesthetic experience are also considered.

Learning Outcomes: A critical understanding of the psychological dimensions of aesthetic phenomena

Experimental Aesthetics

Pre-requisites: Master level course on the psychology of art, or equivalent knowledge.

Course objectives: Training students for gaining of basic understanding of the historical foundations of contemporary themes and experimental aesthetics.

Course description: Major phenomena and theories of psychology of aesthetic preference and aesthetic experience with an emphasis on experimental research methodology are exemined on deepened level. Aesthetic phenomena are processed from perceptual, cognitive and affective aspects, the physical assembly of aesthetic stimulation, its mathematical description, physiological levels of processing and the structure of aesthetic experience are also considered.

Learning Outcomes: A critical understanding of the psychological dimensions of aesthetic phenomena

Literature/Reading:

• Rudolf Arnheim (1969). Art and visual perception. Berkely and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
• David E. Berlyne (1971). Aesthetics and psychobiology. New York: Appleton Century-Crofts.
• David E. Berlyne (1974). The new experimental aesthetics. In D. E. Berlyne (Ed.), Studies in the new experimental aesthetics (pp. 1-25). Washington, D. C.: Hemisphere Publishing Corporation.
• Ernest H. Gombrich (1969). Art and illusion. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
• Izabrani članci iz savremene literature iz eksperimentalne estetike iz časopisa Empirical Studies of Arts i drugih.
• Slobodan Marković (2008). Opažanje dobre forme. Filoѕofski fakultetu Beogradu.