Toward a Science of Aesthetics: Issues and ideas

Aesthetic Science: Connecting Minds, Brains, and Experience

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Shimamura, Arthur P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Art; Expressionism; Formalism; Mimetic; Neuroscience; Philosophy; Psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921795828     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199732142.003.0010     Document Type: Chapter

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