Ladislav Kesner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1193411 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ladislav Kesner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ladislav |
| FAMILY NAME | Kesner |
| SIGNATURE | KESNER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Masaryk University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8277-9705 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Global Adversities, the Media, and Mental Health
Global communities are currently confronted with a number of complex problems and threats, the reality of which is amplified by the media. These environmental and socio-political stressors have been accompanied by the spread of problematic psychological and behavioural tendencies, such as the growing polarisation of opinions and values, online radicalisation and extremism, deepening xenophobia and nationalism, the proliferation of irrational beli…
Mental Ill-Health and the Epidemiology of Representations
One of major challenges facing contemporary psychiatry is the insufficient grasp of relationship between individual and collective mental pathologies. A long tradition of diagnosing "mental illness" of society-exemplified by Erich Fromm-stands apart from approach of contemporary social psychiatry and is not perceived as relevant for psychiatric discourse. In this Perspective article, I argue that it is possible to uphold the idea of a supra-indiv…
Empathy-Related Responses to Depicted People in Art Works
Existing theories of empathic response to visual art works postulate the primacy of automatic embodied reaction to images based on mirror neuron mechanisms. Arguing for a more inclusive concept of empathy-related response and integrating four distinct bodies of literature, we discuss contextual and personal factors which modulate empathic response to depicted people. We then present an integrative model of empathy-related responses to depicted pe…
Showing Images of the Mind in Dresden and Brno
A curator’s reflection is presented on the exhibition, Images of the Mind, which took place in the Deutsches Hygiene Museum in Dresden and Moravian Gallery in Brno from 2011 to 2012 and had the main goal of demonstrating that the mind has a visible dimension, despite its immaterial essence and the fact that it seemingly eludes representation. Images of the Mind aimed to provide a composite ‘portrait’ of the human mind through a juxtaposition of m…
Gombrich and the Problem of Relativity of Vision
Gombrich and the Problem of Relativity of Vision The essay argues that Ernst Gombrich's views are relevant to the critical examination of the notion of the relativity and historicity of vision which has been widely accepted as one of the central axioms shared by visual studies, art history and film studies
Creative Personality and the Creative Act in the Anonymous Art of China
Les bronzes Shang sont des œuvres d'art magnifiques, mais leurs créateurs restent anonymes. Néanmoins, à partir de ce que l'on peut inférer des vases eux-mêmes, il est parfois possible de reconstruire une chaîne de décisions menant à la solution d'un problème spécifiquement esthétique, permettant ainsi de commencer à définir le rôle de chacun des différents participants (patrons, administrateurs des chantiers, dessinateurs/fondeurs...) à la manuf…
Face as Artifact in Early Chinese Art
The role of cognitive competence in the art museum experience
The gap between the potential for works of art in museums to offer unique experiences, and the actual outcomes of visitor encounters, highlights the importance of the cultural competence of museum visitors. However, when applied to museum visiting, cultural competence should be primarily treated as perceptual and cognitive—one needs to exercise the perceptual activities that works of art require in order for a museum visit to register as some for…
The Taotie Reconsidered
The role of cognitive competence in the art museum experience
The gap between the potential for works of art in museums to offer unique experiences, and the actual outcomes of visitor encounters, highlights the importance of the cultural competence of museum visitors. However, when applied to museum visiting, cultural competence should be primarily treated as perceptual and cognitive—one needs to exercise the perceptual activities that works of art require in order for a museum visit to register as some for…
Empathy-Related Responses to Depicted People in Art Works
Existing theories of empathic response to visual art works postulate the primacy of automatic embodied reaction to images based on mirror neuron mechanisms. Arguing for a more inclusive concept of empathy-related response and integrating four distinct bodies of literature, we discuss contextual and personal factors which modulate empathic response to depicted people. We then present an integrative model of empathy-related responses to depicted pe…
The Taotie Reconsidered
The role of cognitive competence in the art museum experience
The gap between the potential for works of art in museums to offer unique experiences, and the actual outcomes of visitor encounters, highlights the importance of the cultural competence of museum visitors. However, when applied to museum visiting, cultural competence should be primarily treated as perceptual and cognitive—one needs to exercise the perceptual activities that works of art require in order for a museum visit to register as some for…
Face as Artifact in Early Chinese Art
Creative Personality and the Creative Act in the Anonymous Art of China
Les bronzes Shang sont des œuvres d'art magnifiques, mais leurs créateurs restent anonymes. Néanmoins, à partir de ce que l'on peut inférer des vases eux-mêmes, il est parfois possible de reconstruire une chaîne de décisions menant à la solution d'un problème spécifiquement esthétique, permettant ainsi de commencer à définir le rôle de chacun des différents participants (patrons, administrateurs des chantiers, dessinateurs/fondeurs...) à la manuf…
Gombrich and the Problem of Relativity of Vision
Gombrich and the Problem of Relativity of Vision The essay argues that Ernst Gombrich's views are relevant to the critical examination of the notion of the relativity and historicity of vision which has been widely accepted as one of the central axioms shared by visual studies, art history and film studies
Showing Images of the Mind in Dresden and Brno
A curator’s reflection is presented on the exhibition, Images of the Mind, which took place in the Deutsches Hygiene Museum in Dresden and Moravian Gallery in Brno from 2011 to 2012 and had the main goal of demonstrating that the mind has a visible dimension, despite its immaterial essence and the fact that it seemingly eludes representation. Images of the Mind aimed to provide a composite ‘portrait’ of the human mind through a juxtaposition of m…
Empathy-Related Responses to Depicted People in Art Works
Existing theories of empathic response to visual art works postulate the primacy of automatic embodied reaction to images based on mirror neuron mechanisms. Arguing for a more inclusive concept of empathy-related response and integrating four distinct bodies of literature, we discuss contextual and personal factors which modulate empathic response to depicted people. We then present an integrative model of empathy-related responses to depicted pe…
Mental Ill-Health and the Epidemiology of Representations
One of major challenges facing contemporary psychiatry is the insufficient grasp of relationship between individual and collective mental pathologies. A long tradition of diagnosing "mental illness" of society-exemplified by Erich Fromm-stands apart from approach of contemporary social psychiatry and is not perceived as relevant for psychiatric discourse. In this Perspective article, I argue that it is possible to uphold the idea of a supra-indiv…
Global Adversities, the Media, and Mental Health
Global communities are currently confronted with a number of complex problems and threats, the reality of which is amplified by the media. These environmental and socio-political stressors have been accompanied by the spread of problematic psychological and behavioural tendencies, such as the growing polarisation of opinions and values, online radicalisation and extremism, deepening xenophobia and nationalism, the proliferation of irrational beli…
Art (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (3 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Cognition (2 works)