Art expertise: a study of concepts and conceptual spaces.
- Author(s)
- Dorothee Augustin, Helmut Leder
- Abstract
An aesthetic experience is a complex cognitive process, the nature and outcome of which
depend upon the perceiver's concepts and expertise (Leder, Belke, Oeberst, & Augustin,
2004). The present study aimed to find out more about the role of expertise in the experience
of contemporary art. By combining a natural grouping task and correspondence analysis we
compared a group of art experts with a group of non-experts as to the concepts they applied
to a set of contemporary artworks and the general dimensions underlying their perception
and interpretation of the works. There were marked parallels between both groups, pointing
to general characteristics of aesthetic experiences. Still, the results support the hypothesis
that experts process artworks more in relation to style, whereas non-experts refer to criteria
such as personal feelings.
- Organisation(s)
- Journal
- Psychology Science
- Volume
- 48
- Pages
- 135-156
- No. of pages
- 22
- ISSN
- 1614-9947
- Publication date
- 2006
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 501001 General psychology
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/art-expertise-a-study-of-concepts-and-conceptual-spaces(09314614-e5f3-4188-b10d-84213d1f9afa).html