The Survey of Establishment and Development of Psychology of Literature and Art and Psychology of Aesthetic Education over the Past Seventy Years

Psychology of literature and art is a science of studying of psychological activity and its law in the courses of literary and artistic creation and appreciation, and it has born over seventy years in China. Psychology of aesthetic education is a newly science, and its concept has been established over twenty years, but ideology of psychology of aesthetic education is of long standing. Its mainly contents are to discuss how to affect people, to develop man's ability of aesthetic feeling, appreciate beauty, to Produce the beauty, and to distinguish beauty and ugliness by educational means of art aesthetic of music, art, literature, how to cultivate People's lofty sentiment and civilized customs of men, and how to promote people' s sound in body and mind. Aesthetic education muct take literary and art as means, and the function and social value of literary and art must be embodied by aestheticc education. Psychology of literary and art and aesthetic education compromise literary and art and aesthetic education from the point of psychology,exerts mental mechanism of making entertainment a medium of education, making aesthetics a medium of education.