Maria Helena Wagner Rossi’s Critical Study of Empirical Research

Abstract

This article presents a Maria Helena Wagner Rossi´s critical study on the empirical research written from 1996 through 2004. The starting point was a qualitative bibliographical research, whose fundamental object of study was the author’s theoretical output on the nature of the aesthetic-visual comprehension of Brazilian students, based on their empirical studies. In the article body, topics are addressed in terms of problems dealing with visual arts training from which the author departed; as well as the objectives and the general features of her empirical research; the way in which data was interpreted, the epistemology involved and the theoretical results she arrived at.