Psychology of Art

The book of an outstanding psychologist and the theorist of the art of Lev Semenovich Vottsky (1896-1934) was the result of his works 1915-1922. The book was preparing for printing, but published only in 1965, after the author"s death, and won universal recognition. In his study, Vygotsky appeals to the classic works of different genres. The main question that the author puts is: What makes the work of artistic, what turns it into the creation of art? Analyzing the structure of the artistic text, Vygotsky recreates the mechanism of his perception. In this, the scientist saw a path that allows you to penetrate the mystery of the great works of art, to know, because of which the Greek epic or the tragedy of Shakespeare continue to worry us, while remaining the same mystery to us, what hundreds of years ago