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Art for the betterment of life Individual psychology & behaviourism

"The knowledge of our own minds can be put to no better use than in understanding our social and political lives. That is why political psychology matters." - George Lakoff , Berkeley , CA April 2008. Art for the betterment of life Individual psychology & behaviourism

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Art for the betterment of life Individual psychology & behaviourism

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  1. "The knowledge of our own minds can be put to no better use than in understanding our social and political lives. That is why political psychology matters."-GeorgeLakoff, Berkeley, CA April 2008 Art for the betterment of life Individual psychology & behaviourism Psychology affected by outside parameters, such as education, environment, social- political environment of different countries. Psychology of the individual affects his/her surroundings, (natural or socio-political environment.) Man With a Movie Camera by DzigaVertov 1929

  2. Trail of thought:How important are our values and belief systems, towards the way we see the world? Walter Benjamin and his concerns on the “political tendency” movement called “The New Objectivity”, which seemed to estheticise politics, rather than politicising art. The juxtaposition of Karl Marx and fascism and its context within art Merleau-Ponty’s interpretation of phenomenology, being a philosophical method, its aim to put out of action the assumptions we normally make about ourselves and the world for scientific and practical purposes, and to get back to the world as we directly experience it in pre-reflective perception. Element of appearances (phenomenology) in Umberto Eco’s novels

  3. Hartmann Schedel'sDas Ander Alter Der Welt

  4. Beliefs which influence our perception of the world Pierre Huyghe, ‘This is not a time for dreaming,’ 2004 Examples: Racism, Belief in a just world, The concept of evil and good “Syndrome of the Man on Horseback” ( The tendency to follow a person who seems to be in charge, and the need to believe that the people in charge are rightfully there). • Most if not all of our beliefs act as layers upon our sight, and it depends on us to choose which ones are applicable and which ones aren't. Richard Wentworth from ‘Faux Amis’ 2001

  5. Theory into practice Napoleon on horsebackPiotrMichalowskiBronze, 1832-35, cast 1841   National Museum in Krakow Each person sees the world according to their beliefs and ideas (bearing in mind of course that the psyche is influenced by its environment and education). Is it possible for anyone to see the world adjectively, as it exactly is? Or is the world shaped by what we believe, exactly because we believe in it? Our beliefs being represented by maps, and those maps being put in front of our eyes, in order to narrate the world to us, or act as filters to see the world through them. A man on horseback enlarged, looking and pointing at the viewer. Being placed to a very small scale of the same man on horseback and a figure of a viewer. The Fra Mauro Map

  6. Is it possible for anyone to see the world adjectively, exactly as it is? Or is the world shaped differently for each person, by what that person believes, exactly because he or she believes in it? Carta Marina

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