The visual arts have long been held to have an intimate link with emotions. Despite this, the topic remains underexplored; when the expression of emotion is dis

Jenefer Robinson uses modern psychological and neuroscientific research on the emotions to study our emotional involvement with the arts.

The only work of its kind, this exciting collection assembles a number of analytically minded philosophers, psychologists, and literary theorists, all of whom s

The author's aim in this study is to show that what experiences of art and emotion have in common and what links them to the expression of emotion in non-artist

Danto argues that recent developments in art--in particular the production of works that cannot be told from ordinary things--make urgent the need for a new the