Ornamented lives

Ornamented Lives is a theoretical synthesis of cultural psychology, aesthetics, and philosophy of meaning construction. It is an extension of the author's theory of Semiotic Dynamics (Culture in Minds and Societies, 2007) to the field of ornaments. Ornaments are not merely "decorations&quo...

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Main Author Valsiner, Jaan (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, inc., 2019.
SeriesAdvances in cultural psychology.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806607372
DOI10.1108/978-1-64113-470-5
Physical Description1 online resource (274 pages.)

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505 0 |a Preface -- Part I. Roots of beauty -- Chapter 1. Philosophies of the sublime, and of the beautiful -- Chapter 2. From point and line to spiral: Dialogues within wholes -- Chapter 3. Flowers in frames: Directionality in the field -- Part II. Looking far to see near: Windows into ourselves -- Chapter 4. Landscapes: The feeling of awe -- Chapter 5. Iconic fields: Plurifunctionality of the image -- Chapter 6. Architectural forms: Silent guidance for human feeling -- Part III. Embodiment of affective fields -- Chapter 7. Schematization and pleromatization -- Chapter 8. Beyond the fall: The psyche on the body -- Chapter 9. A glimpse into the interior of the psyche -- Chapter 10. General conclusions: Affective forms in human lives -- References -- About the author. 
506 |a Plný text je dostupný pouze z IP adres počítačů Univerzity Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně nebo vzdáleným přístupem pro zaměstnance a studenty 
520 |a Ornamented Lives is a theoretical synthesis of cultural psychology, aesthetics, and philosophy of meaning construction. It is an extension of the author's theory of Semiotic Dynamics (Culture in Minds and Societies, 2007) to the field of ornaments. Ornaments are not merely "decorations" but play the important role of guiding the affective depths of the human minds. This is done by capturing the whole fields of perceivable peripheral spaces and filling them with highly recursive forms. The book concentrates on the visual ornaments of various kinds, indicating in them the tensions between basic forms--linear and curvilinear. This tension is present in human construction of environments--natural growth involves curvilinear forms while human constructions introduce linearity. The basic tension between linear and curvilinear infinities is expressed in the use of spiral forms in art and architecture. The book builds a theoretical account of human beings constantly creating sublime life occasions that give them affective charge for dramatizations of ordinary living. Episodically the sublime acquires new quality--becomes aesthetic. The coverage in this book links the aesthetic, the sublime, and the mundane into one theoretical scheme within cultural psychology. 
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