Art and Human Development (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Milbrath, Constance; Lightfoot, Cynthia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This interdisciplinary volume explores art, its development, and its role in the construction of knowledge. Presenting theory and research on artistic development as a cultural and creative endeavor, contributors examine the origins of human art during the Paleolithic cultural revolution, as part of a modern cultural transformation, in the growth of a creative artist, and in developing children.

Target chapters expressing the disciplinary perspectives of psychology, archaeology, communications, education, and the performing arts are followed by commentaries from internationally acclaimed scholars of human development. Part 1 explores how cultures harness and exploit the arts to give expression to values, social practices, and traditions. This section traces the emergence of new art forms that arose during social unrest, including the symbolization of spiritual beliefs expressed on the walls of Paleolithic caves, and the racial identity and cultural values expressed in the media of the hip-hop generation. Part 2 examines the journeys of a composer and a group of students to highlight the process of becoming an artist and the role education plays in its development. The book concludes with a focus on the development of aesthetic appreciation and artistic activity in childhood and adolescence, including, for example, how a child's developing theory of mind affects appreciation for the arts, and how developing empathy and emotional regulation contribute to the cognitive and affective underpinnings of acting in adolescence. As a whole contributors explore the developmental, sociocultural, and evolutionary processes that make the creation and experience of art possible.

Intended for researchers and advanced students in both human development and the arts, this book will also serve as a textbook for advanced courses on psychology and the arts and/or special topics courses in cognitive and/or human development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136643057
• Artikelnr.: 39042156

Autorenporträt

Constance Milbrath is a senior researcher at the Human Early Learning Partnership at the University of British Columbia. She received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research focuses on individual differences in the underpinnings of drawing and aesthetic competence in children, the influence of cultural differences on adolescent relationships, and the development of a clinical instrument aimed at assessing structure of personality. A Fellow of the APA, Dr. Milbrath is also a member of Division 10, the Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts. Cynthia Lightfoot is a Professor and Program Director of Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State University, Brandywine. She received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the cultural contexts of development. She has served as Vice President to, and is currently on the Board of Directors of the Jean Piaget Society.

Inhaltsangabe

C. Lightfoot
C. Milbrath
Introduction. Part 1. Art in the Context of Culture J.D. Lewis-Williams
Science
Religion and Pictures: an Origin of Image-Making. C. Milbrath
Commentary: Comparative Developmental And Social Perspectives On The Mystery Of Upper Paleolithic Art. M. Forman
Hip-Hop Culture
Youth Creativity
and the Generational Crossroads. B. Tinsley
S. Wilson
M.B. Spencer
Commentary: Hip-Hop Culture
Youth Creativity and the Generational Crossroads from a Human Development Perspective. Part 2. Educating the Artists and Using the Arts to Educate G. Levinson
"Why Should I Write?" asked the Pencil. "What Else Can You Do?" said the Knife. Or
Why I Can't Tell You Why I Am a Composer. J. Bamberger
Commentary: A View of Levinson's Development. C. Lee
Every Shut Eye Ain't Sleep: Modeling the "Scientific" from the Everyday as Cultural Process. C. Daiute
Commentary: Adolescents' Purposeful Uses of Culture. Part 3. Artistic Development N. Freeman
Children as Intuitive Art Critics. A. Costal
Commentary: But is It Art? T.R. Goldstein
E. Winner
A New Lens on the Development of Social Cognition: The Study of Acting. J. Peskin
R.A. Mar
T. Bischoff
Commentary: Advanced Social Cognition in the Literary Arts.