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1032487119 epub 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 discussed, it is usually in relation to music. This volume corrects this lacuna and presents a variety of perspectives on the expression of emotion in the visual arts with contributions from both established and early career academics. There are chapters on the empathy theory of beauty enaction and artistic expression emotion and experimental psychology a persona theory of visual expression and self-expression in portraiture. There are also chapters discussing the contributions to the topic by Susanne Langer and Richard Wollheim as well as a chapter comparing the work of R.G. Collingwood and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Read more