Embodying Art

How We See, Think, Feel, and Create

AvChiara Cappelletto

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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In recent years, neuroscientists have made ambitious attempts to explain artistic processes and spectatorship through brain imaging techniques. But can brain science really unravel the workings of art? Is the brain in fact the site of aesthetic appreciation?Embodying Art 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. Chiara Cappelletto presents close readings of neuroscientific and philosophical scholarship as well as artworks and art criticism, identifying their epistemological premises and theoretical consequences. She critiques neuroaesthetic reductionism and its assumptions about a mind/body divide, arguing that the brain is embodied and embedded in affective, cultural, and historical milieus.Cappelletto considers understandings of the human brain encompassing scientific, philosophical, and visual and performance arts discourses. She examines how neuroaesthetics has constructed its field of study, exploring the ways digital renderings and scientific data have been used to produce the brain as a cultural and visual object. Tracing the intertwined histories of brain science and aesthetic theory, Embodying Art offers a strikingly original and profound philosophical account of the human brain as a living artifact.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-11-08
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:522 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Columbia University Press
ISBN:9780231195867
Översättare:Samuel Fleck

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Chiara Cappelletto is an associate professor in aesthetics in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Milan. She is the author or editor of several books and essays in Italian on aesthetics, visual and performing arts, and phenomenology.Samuel Fleck is a translator specializing in French and Italian literary and scholarly texts. He holds a PhD in Italian language and literature from Columbia University.

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Cappelletto’s Embodying Art marks a new beginning. Skeptics of brain-oriented approaches to art and aesthetics will delight in her trenchant criticisms, even as friends will welcome what is in fact a sympathetic, deeply informed, and highly informative embrace of the emerging field. But whatever side you are on, you will be impressed by her demonstration that neuroaesthetics has become a new arena in which not only scientists of the brain, but also philosophers, art historians, and artists themselves, are reimagining, indeed, remaking what it is to be human. This is a book for anyone interested in why the study of the brain now occupies such a central place in our cultural life.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsNeuroaesthetics Reloaded1. 1994: Putting Neuroaesthetics on the Map2. Neuroaesthetics: Cerebral Attributes and Bodily Ghosts3. Neuroarthistory: On Emotions, Matter, and Time4. Neuroartcriticism: From the Artist’s Lesions to the Artwork and Vice Versa5. The Brain’s Iconoclash6. Brains on StageNotesBibliographyAppendix: Artworks on the BrainIndex