Ornamented Lives - 9781641134682

Ornamented LivesAuthor(s): Jaan Valsiner\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Inc, United States\nImprint: Information Age Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781641134682, 978-1641134682\nSynopsis\nOrnamented Lives is a theoretical synthesis of cultural psychology, aesthetics, and philosophy of meaning construction. It is an extension of the authors theory of Semiotic Dynamics (Culture in Minds and Societies, 2007) to the field of ornaments. Ornaments are not merely decorations but play the important role of guiding the affective depths of the human minds. This is done by capturing the whole fields of perceivable peripheral spaces and filling them with highly recursive forms. The book concentrates on the visual ornaments of various kinds, indicating in them the tensions between basic formslinear and curvilinear. This tension is present in human construction of environmentsnatural growth involves curvilinear forms while human constructions introduce linearity. The basic tension betwee.