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“The anti-developmental, the anti-narrative, the anti-historical”: Mondrian as a paradigmatic artist for empirical aesthetics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 March 2013

Chris McManus
Chris McManus*
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Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom. i.mcmanus@ucl.ac.uk http://www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-education/
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Abstract

In addition to general criticisms of scientific studies on empirical aesthetics, Bullot & Reber (B&R) particularly criticise two “representative studies” that manipulated paintings by Mondrian, those studies seemingly, “fail[ing] to consider the predictions suggested by a contextualist approach to the appreciation of imbalance” (sect. 4.2, para.2). Those criticisms are unjustified, both within the approaches of empirical aesthetics and the historical context and aims of Mondrian's work.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , April 2013 , pp. 152 - 153
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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