| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 314 pages) : illustrations, music |
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OUP E-Books
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| 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 |
| 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 no |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Art -- Psychology.
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Cognition.
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Creative ability.
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cognition.
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creativity.
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ART -- General.
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Art -- Psychology
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Cognition
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Creative ability
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Turner, Mark, 1954-
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| LC no. |
2005031824 |
| ISBN |
9780195345636 |
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0195345630 |
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9780195306361 |
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0195306368 |
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0199851034 |
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9780199851034 |
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9781429438513 |
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1429438517 |
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9786610846566 |
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6610846561 |
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1280846569 |
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9781280846564 |
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