Learning to look : dispatches from the art world / Alva Noë.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Noë, Alva, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art appreciation.

Art--Psychology.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 202 pages)

Other Title:

Dispatches from the art world

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

'Learning to Look' is a collection of short and accessible essays on how we experience art. In each chapter, Alva Noë starts from an experience of a particular artwork and from there shows how these works open new questions about philosophy, science, and ourselves.

Contents:

Part I Encounters. Soup Is an Anagram of Opus ; I Am Sitting in a Room ; Forty Speakers in a Room ; Two Left Hands ; Rock Art ; The Power of Performance ; Cheap Thrills at the Whitney ; Whaling with Turner ; Take My Breath Away! ; Speak, Draw, Dance ; Beach Beasts on the Move ; Making the Work Work ; Irrational Man ; RoboCop's Philosophers ; Pointing the Way to Liberation in Star Trek: Voyager ; An Awkward Synthesis

Part II Pictures. The Anatomy Lesson ; The Importance of Being Dressed ; The Art of the Brain ; Faces and Masks ; The Philosophical Eye ; The Camera and the Dance ; Why Are 3D Movies So Bad? ; Storytelling and the "Uncanny Valley" ; Peering into Rembrandt's Eyes ; This Is No Zoo

Part III Art's Nature. Coughing and the Meaning of Art ; Is It Okay if Art Is Boring? ; The Opportunity of Boredom ; Art Placebo ; Are Works of Art Relics? ; Reproductions in the Age of Originality ; Who Was Vermeer? ; How to Love a Fake ; Monuments

Part IV Nature's Art. Aesthetic Evolution ; Bowie, Cheesecake, Sex, and the Meaning of Music ; Dylan's Literature ; What's New Is Old ; The Performance Art of David Bowie: A Remembrance ; All Things Shining ; You Say "Tomato" ; What Is a Fact? ; Streams of Memes ; Adele in the Goldilocks Zone ; Mind in the Natural World: Can Physics Explain It? ; Art at the Limits of Neuroscience.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Noë, Alva Learning to Look

ISBN:

0-19-760113-8

0-19-092823-9

OCLC:

1286431573