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Experiencing Art - Arthur Shimamura

Experiencing Art

In the Brain of the Beholder
Buch | Hardcover
312 Seiten
2013
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-993693-9 (ISBN)
CHF 89,90 inkl. MwSt
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.
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.

Arthur P. Shimamura is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He investigates human memory and cognition using neuroimaging techniques and studying individuals with memory disorders. Dr. Shimamura is a founding member of the Society for Cognitive Neuroscience, has been a scientific advisor for the San Francisco Exploratorium Science Museum, and received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship to explore art, aesthetics and brain.

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

Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 254 x 183 mm
Gewicht 930 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Verhaltenstherapie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Zoologie
ISBN-10 0-19-993693-5 / 0199936935
ISBN-13 978-0-19-993693-9 / 9780199936939
Zustand Neuware
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