Ancuta Mortu: A Script-Based Understanding of Art Appreciation

Czech Society for Aesthetics cordially invites you to a lecture by Dr Ancuta Maria Mortu that will take place on 8 December from 5:30 pm to 7 pm in Jan Čejka Gallery in Campus Hybernská.

Annotation of the lecture:

In cognitive psychology, scripts are defined as mental structures that play an important role in organising experiences occurring frequently by arranging them into conventionalised conceptual sequences or “knowledge-structures.” I argue that the appreciation of an artwork relies on art-historical, script-based, predictions, or approximations about the place a work occupies in a tradition of art (Gombrich, 1960; Ucko,1977; Wollheim 1990), rather than being based on mere perceptual knowledge and everyday perceptual routines. To get a grasp on script-based predictions –i.e., predictions that take as their object temporal relationships between works and their place in art history – I identify their features within a broader typology of predictions and then examine how such predictions impact art appreciation. I propose that this happens by correcting predictive failure (Van de Cruys, Wagemans 2011) with important consequences for the affective value that colours our appreciative acts.

 

 

Event detail

Event start
8. 12. 2022 17:30 - 19:00
Venue
Jan Čejka Gallery, Campus Hybernska, Hybernská 998/4, Prague 1
Website
https://www.estetikaspol.cz/index.php/2022/11/29/iii-letosni-prednaska-spe/
Organizing Institution
Czech Society for Aesthetics
Event type
Lecture