Primal world beliefs and art

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ID22258596
AuthorsI Verstegen (0000-0003-0815-4031, Center for Visual Communication (United States), corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume6
Issue2
Publication date2025-08-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
Venuecultura & psyché (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2730-5732 • E-ISSN: 2730-5732
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s43638-025-00101-4
OpenAlexW4413028689
LanguageEN
References cited24

This paper reviews prior work in art history about worldviews and the methodological challenges it has faced toward a new engagement in art history with primals theory. After reviewing the individualistic focus of art history and how such a humanistic discipline can hope to connect to a science like psychology, the review discusses early attempts to link art history to worldview. A good deal of time is spent on challenges to the derivation of mentality and worldview from works of art in the scholarship of the post-war period, so that these challenges can be met today. The most significant of them is the problem of how a worldview can be deposited in a symbolic artifact, and theories that sought to link these are reviewed. Next, debating historiographic models that have reintroduced worldviews into discussion, their careful use of simple units with conscious adaptation (not unconsciously determined) is noted. Finally, three case studies are reviewed to attempt a first connection of art history to primals, seeking to cover past societies with differing primals, two competing, contemporary primals, and lastly the primals held by the same individual

Art · Art history · Art world · Performance art · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Study and Philosophy of Religion · Visual Culture and Art Theory

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