Does history affect aesthetic preference? Kandinsky's teaching of colour-form correspondence, empirical aesthetics, and the bauhaus

Design Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 16-27

  Jacobsen, Thomas ^a   Wolsdorff, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b Bauhaus Archiv Berlin   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colour form correspondence; Empirical aesthetics; Kandinsky; Psychology of art; The Bauhaus

Indexed keywords

COLOR; DESIGN; EDUCATION; ESTHETIC PROPERTY; MOTIF;

EID: 42549158912     PISSN: 14606925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2752/146069207789271902     Document Type: Article

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