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First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
List of contents
Contents: Preface. Introduction. Part I: Concepts of Development in the Domain of the Arts.B. Kaplan, Is the Concept of Development Applicable to Art? H.S. Hein, Is Feminist Art Aesthetically Regressive? L.A. Sass, Psychoanalysis, Romanticism and the Nature of Aesthetic Consciousness--with Reflections on Modernism and Post Modernism. Part II: Artistic Processes in Ontogenesis.D.P. Wolf, Development as the Growth of Repertoires. G. Goldschmidt, Development in Architectural Designing. Part III: Development of the Artist.L. Baskin, Interconnective Evolvements from One Medium to Another. R.S. Liebert, Michelangelo, Early Childhood, and Maternal Imagery: The Sculptor's Relation to Stone. M. Freeman, What Aesthetic Development Is Not: An Inquiry into Pathologies of Postmodern Creation. M.B. Franklin, Narratives of Change and Continuity: Women Artists Reflect on Their Work. Part IV: On Development in the History of Art.S.J. Blatt, Concurrent Conceptual Revolutions in Art and Science. M.W. Wartofsky, Is a Developmental History of Art Possible? S.J. Blatt, Response to Wartofsky.
About the author
Franklin, Margery B.; Kaplan, Bernard
Summary
This volume asks if a concept of development is relevant to art. It considers specific phenomena and questions against theoretical issues, from the perspectives of philosophical aesthetics, psychoanalysis, architecture and design, the practicing artist and developmental theory in psychology.
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"...This is a significant volume in the development of critical thought regarding the arts. The chapters are scholarly, and they critically examine their subject in a focused manner, encompassing many points of view."
—Contemporary Psychology
