1. Can science tell us anything about art?
                    1-19 Winner, Introduction

2. How do pictures represent?
                   1-22 Winner, ch. 3 (to p. 104)

              Convention
                     1-26 Solso, ch. 3 & 5
                     1-29 Goodman, "Reality Remade"
             Information
                    2-2 Winner, ch 4 (to p. 122); Gibson, "The Information Available in Pictures"

              Computation
                    2-5 Solso, ch. 2; Winner, ch 12
                    2-9 Zeki, "The Modularity of Vision"
              Resemblence
                    2-12 Danto, "Seeing and Showing;" Solso, ch. 7
                    2-16 Rollins, "The Invisible Content of Visual Art"
              Recognition
                    2-19 Biederman, "Visual Object Recognition;" Schier, "A Theory of Depiction"
                    2-23 Review
                    2-26 exam

3. Does art express emotion?

             Expression
                   3-2 Spackman, "Expression Theory of Art;" Winner, 104-111 & 123-134
                   3-5 Solso, chs. 4
                   3-9 Sircello, "Expressive Properties of Art"

             Emotion
                   3-19 Griffiths, "Emotion;" Goodman, "The Function of Feeling"
                   3-23 Zajonc, "On Primacy of Affect"
                   3-30 Ortony and Turner, "What is Basic About Basic Emotions?"
                   paper draft due

4. What is aesthetic experience?

             Attitude
                   4-2 Dickie, "The Myth of Aesthetic Attitude;"
                   4-6 Casebier, "The Concept of Aesthetic Distance;" Van der Heijden, "Attention"

              Preference
                   4-9 Winner, ch. 2 & pp. 134-143;
                   4-13 Dickie, "Is Psychology Relevant to Aesthetics?"
                   4-16 Ramachandran, and Hirstein, "The Science of Art: A Neurological Theory of Aesthetic Experience"

             Seeing-in
                   4-20 Wollheim, "Seeing-as, Seeing-in, and Pictorial Representation;" Solso chap. 6

5. Why Does Art Have a History?

             Progress
                  4-23 Solso ch 8; Gombrich, "Psychology and the Riddle of Style"

             Radical Change
                  4-27 Solso ch. 9; Rollins, "Pictorial Attitudes;"paper revision due.
 
 

Text: Robert Solso, Cognition and the Visual Arts; Ellen Winner, Invented Worlds: The Psychology of the Arts;course packet.

Requirements: midterm exam (30%), term paper (25%), take-home final (30%), class participation (15%)

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