)!!!Psychology of Art
Podcasts
This section contains the podcasts of the course lectures. The audio files are unedited and, apart from a very short jingle at the very beginning, are left as they were when recorded. The only exception is the first file which is a cut and paste of a few of other lectures that, due to technical reasons, were recorded in an uncomplete way. Good hearing.
Although this page and the descriptions below
are in English, all lectures are held in Italian ()!!!
| Date | Length | Topic |
| Lezione 1 | 45 min | What is psychology of art? Art seen as different ways to understand the relation between subject and object. Art is related to different possible answers to the question about the nature of the subject, of the object, and their relation. |
| Lezione 2 | 1 h 18 min | Mimesis and representation. What is shown in a work of art, if anything? The platonic model of reality. |
| Lezione 3 | 1 h 18 min | The role of the eye and the invention of the dark room in shaping the role of the artist and of the beholder in classic and modern art. |
| Lezione 4 | 1h 18 min | What is similarity? and denotation? Nelson Goodman and art as a language. Some elements about the structure and the role of the eye in fleshing our visual perception of the world. |
| Lezione 5 | 1h 18 min | The eye and the brain: how do we perceive the world? The blind spot and the geometrical transformation induced by the retina. Anamorphic pictures. |
| Lezione 6 | 1h 15 min | Inattentional blindness and reality. How is reality changed during perception? What is a faithful representation? Visual arts and perception. |
| Lezione 7 | 1h 10 min | How perspectives brought the subject into the object. Steps from an object-centered view of reality to a subject-centered view of it. The universality of the subjectivity. |
| Lezione 8 | 1h 6 min | The historical development of perspective and its psychological implications. Different kinds of perspectives: from Brunelleschi to the Impressionists. |
| Lezione 9-10 | 1h18 min | The physical nature of colours. The structure of light in fleshing out colours. How the notion of rainbow shaped the way in which we conceive colours. |
| Lezione 11 | 1h08 min | The relational nature of colours. The RGB models of colours. Additive and substractive syntesis of colours. The use of colours from Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution. |
| Lezione 12 | 1h12 min | How do we perceive form and shapes? What is a form? The fourfold nature of form and their relation with representation in art. |
| Lezione 13 | 1h 14 min | Content, Form, and Meaning: a triade of elements always struggling to find a balance |
| Lezione 14 | 1h 15 min | Ideals from art to the brain. Neuroaesthetics from Leonardo to Michelangelo |