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Embodying art : how we see, think, feel, and create / Chiara Cappelletto ; translated by Samuel Fleck.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cappelletto, Chiara, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--Psychology.
- Art.
- Neurosciences and the arts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (276 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- Chiara Cappelletto recasts the relationship between neuroscience and aesthetics and calls for shifting the focus of inquiry from the brain itself to personal experience in the world. Embodying Art offers a strikingly original and profound philosophical account of the human brain as a living artifact.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Neuroaesthetics Reloaded
- 1. 1994: Putting Neuroaesthetics on the Map
- 2. Neuroaesthetics: Cerebral Attributes and Bodily Ghosts
- 3. Neuroarthistory: On Emotions, Matter, and Time
- 4. Neuroartcriticism: From the Artist's Lesions to the Artwork and Vice Versa
- 5. The Brain's Iconoclash
- 6. Brains on Stage
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Appendix: Artworks on the Brain
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-231-55152-5
- OCLC:
- 1345588103
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