Experiencing Art
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 25 June 2015
- ISBN 9780190239077
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages298 pages
- Size 178x251x17 mm
- Weight 672 g
- Language English
- Illustrations With illustrations 0
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Short description:
How do we appreciate a work of art? Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to explore connections between art, mind, and brain, Arthur Shimamura takes findings from psychological and brain sciences to address ways of understanding our aesthetic responses.
MoreLong description:
How do we appreciate a work of art? Why do we like some artworks but not others? Is there no accounting for taste? Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to explore connections between art, mind, and brain, Shimamura considers how we experience art. In a thoughtful and entertaining manner, the book explores how the brain interprets art by engaging our sensations, thoughts, and emotions. It describes interesting findings from psychological and brain sciences as a way to understand our aesthetic response to art.
Beauty, disgust, surprise, anger, sadness, horror, and a myriad of other emotions can occur as we experience art. Some artworks may generate such feelings rather quickly, while others depend on thought and knowledge. Our response to art depends largely on what we know--from everyday knowledge about the world, from our cultural backgrounds, and from personal experience. Filled with artworks from many traditions and time points, "Experiencing Art" offers insightful ways of broadening one's approach and appreciation of art.
Shimamura has written the ideal introduction to what science can say about artworks, from prehistoric carvings to the latest video projections. It's readable, smart and informed. Better yet, it's a scientist's take that doesn't neglect the humanities: Shimamura cares about which neurons fire, but also about what Plato thought.
Table of Contents:
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Overture
Act I: The Art of Seeing
Chapter 2: The Eye as Canvas, the Brain as Beholder
Chapter 3. The Illusion of Form
Chapter 4: Making a Scene
Act II: The Art of Knowing
Chapter 5. How Do You Know?
Chapter 6: Remembrance of Past Things
Chapter 7: You Are Cultured
Act III: The Art of Feeling
Chapter 8: Arousing Emotions
Chapter 9: Body Language
Chapter 10: I Know How You Feel
Chapter 11: Coda
