How art works : a psychological exploration / Ellen Winner.

Part one: Introduction. Perennial questions
Can this be art?
Part two: Art and emotion. Wordless sounds: hearing emotion in music
Feeling from music: emotions in the music listener
Color and form: emotional connotations of visual art
Emotions in the art museum: why don't we feel like crying?
Drawn to pain: the paradoxical enjoyment of negative emotion in art
Part three: Art and judgment. Is it good? Or just familiar?
Too easy to be good? The effort bias
Identical! What's wrong with a perfect fake?
"But my kid could have done that!"
Part four: What art does, and does not, do for us. Silver bullets: does art make us smarter?
The lives of others: fiction and empathy
Does making art improve well-being
Part five: Making art. Who makes art and why?
How art works.