Table of Contents

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; A prolegomenon to critical historiography; Introduction: art psychology, the elusive discipline; 1. The psychologizing of modernity: initial soundings; 2. The body ethos; 3. The vitalist ethos; 4. The social ethos; 5. The literary ethos; 6. Theory activism; Conclusion: the disciplinary dialectics of art and architecture's intellectual history; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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An examination of the impact of psychology on twentieth-century aesthetics.

Reviews

"well-informed, transdisciplinary, historical argument." Times Literary Supplement