Beauty in the Eye of Expert and Nonexpert Beholders: A Study in the Appraisal of Art

In this study, professional art experts and nonexperts with an active interest in art rated sets of 10-20 slides of artworks made available by young artists. Each set was rated on bipolar scales, including not original--original; absence of craftsmanship--craftsmanship; and poor quality--good qualit...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The American journal of psychology 1996-09, Vol.109 (3), p.389-407
Hauptverfasser:	Hekkert, Paul, Piet C. W. Van Wieringen
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Abstract art Aesthetics Applied psychology Appraisal Appreciation Art appreciation Art museums Art objects Arts. Literature Biological and medical sciences Craftsmanship Cubism Cultural values Experts Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Psychological aspects Psychology Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychology. Psychophysiology Value judgments Visual arts
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Zusammenfassung:	In this study, professional art experts and nonexperts with an active interest in art rated sets of 10-20 slides of artworks made available by young artists. Each set was rated on bipolar scales, including not original--original; absence of craftsmanship--craftsmanship; and poor quality--good quality. Intraclass coefficients Rifor these three scales were .17, .21, and .22 for experts and .19, .08, and .16 for nonexperts, respectively. There was a significant agreement between experts and nonexperts with respect to originality, but no agreement with respect to craftsmanship and quality. The correlation between originality and quality was significantly (p < .01) higher for experts (r = .88) than for nonexperts (r = .40). Thus, experts seem to attach much more value to originality in determining aesthetic quality than nonexperts.
ISSN:	0002-9556 1939-8298
DOI:	10.2307/1423013