Prancūzų Ir Britų Psichologinė Estetika Kelyje Į Meno Psichologiją
French and British Psychological Aesthetics on the Way to the Psychology of Art

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the psychology of aesthetics transformation to art psychology in France and Great Britain at the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. The most famous French and British elaborators of art psychology – Victor Bach, Henri’s Delacroix, André Malraux, Jean Weber, Denis Huisman, Robert Francès, Vernon Lee, Edward Bullough – applied the principles of empiricist psychology to the investigation of artistic creativity. They directly related the phenomenon of aesthteticity with the sensations of pleasure and displeasure; applied some elements of empathy theory, enriched by physiological aspects, to the inquiry of creative work and aesthetic perception. As a result of these theoretical and methodological innovations psychology of art become the independent branch of the psychology of aesthetics having its own subject of inquiry, structure and objectives.

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