The artful mind : cognitive science and the riddle of human creativity / edited by Mark Turner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Turner, Mark, 1954- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Psychology.

Art.

Cognition.

Creative ability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 314 pages) : illustrations, music

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Cognitive science and the riddle of human creativity

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

All normal human beings alive in the last fifty thousand years appear to have possessed, in Mark Turner's phrase, ""irrepressibly artful minds."" Cognitively modern minds produced a staggering list of behavioral singularities--science, religion, mathematics, language, advanced tool use, decorative dress, dance, culture, art--that seems to indicate a mysterious and unexplained discontinuity between us and all other living things. This brute fact gives rise to some tantalizing questions: How did the artful mind emerge? What are the basic mental operations that make art possible for us now, and h

Contents:

Art and cognitive evolution / Merlin Donald

The aesthetic faculty / Terrence Deacon

A cognitive account of aesthetics / Francis Steen

Composition and emotion / David Freedberg

The art of compression / Mark Turner

The cognitive tango / Lawrence M. Zbikowski

Dynamics of completion / Shirley Brice Heath

The neuroscience of form in art / George Lakoff

Form and meaning in art / Per Aage Brandt

Slippages of meaning and form / Stephen Murray

Making relics work / Robert A. Scott

Architectural space as metaphor in the Greek sanctuary / Gloria Ferrari

The neurology of ambiguity / Semir Zeki

Mastering ambiguity / Marc De Mey.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-988559-1

1-280-84656-9

0-19-534563-0

1-4294-3851-7