Experiencing Art

Arthur Shimamura Oxford University Press

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.

ISBN10 : 9780199791538 , ISBN13 : 0199791538

Page Number : 312

Experiencing Art

Arthur P. Shimamura Oxford University Press, USA

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.

ISBN10 : 0199936943 , ISBN13 : 9780199936946

Page Number : 280

Art Is Beauty In The Brain Of The Beholder

Dick Frans Swaab

Mondriaanlezing van de arts en neurowetenschapper over het relatief nieuwe gebied van onderzoek, de neuro-esthetiek: het onderzoek naar verschillende mechanismen in de hersenen die betrokken zijn bij het maken van of het kijken naar kunst.

ISBN10 : 9491444131 , ISBN13 : 9789491444135

Page Number : 0

Brain And Art

Idan Segev Frontiers E-books

Could we understand, in biological terms, the unique and fantastic capabilities of the human brain to both create and enjoy art? In the past decade neuroscience has made a huge leap in developing experimental techniques as well as theoretical frameworks for studying emergent properties following the activity of large neuronal networks. These methods, including MEG, fMRI, sophisticated data analysis approaches and behavioral methods, are increasingly being used in many labs worldwide, with the goal to explore brain mechanisms corresponding to the artistic experience. The 37 articles composing this unique Frontiers Research Topic bring together experimental and theoretical research, linking state-of-the-art knowledge about the brain with the phenomena of Art. It covers a broad scope of topics, contributed by world-renowned experts in vision, audition, somato-sensation, movement, and cinema. Importantly, as we felt that a dialog among artists and scientists is essential and fruitful, we invited a few artists to contribute their insights, as well as their art. Joan Miró said that “art is the search for the alphabet of the mind.” This volume reflects the state of the art search to understand neurobiological alphabet of the Arts. We hope that the wide range of articles in this volume will be highly attractive to brain researchers, artists and the community at large.

ISBN10 : 9782889193608 , ISBN13 : 2889193608

Page Number : 445

Art And The Brain

Joseph Goguen Imprint Academic

Science of art - commentary on Ramachandran and Hirstein - Art and the Brain - The Emergence of Art and Language in the Human Brain - Cave Art, autism, and the evolution of the human mind - On aesthetic perception

ISBN10 : 0907845452 , ISBN13 : 9780907845454

Page Number : 214

Hack The Experience

Ryan Dewey punctum books

"This is a book for artists, but it is also for curators, art school faculty, landscape architects, gallerists, archivists, post-disciplinary multi-hyphenates, museum program staff, and anyone who wants to know about the ways art and congnitive science come together to engage an audience."--Cover

ISBN10 : 9781947447653 , ISBN13 : 1947447653

Page Number : 166

The Beholder S Share

Celia Durkin

Together, these results suggest that abstract paintings are interpreted more subjectively than representational paintings. This process of subjective interpretation recruits regions of the brain involved in internally oriented cognition (the DMN) and involves drawing on prior experiences. These results, and the methods we used to obtain them, have implications for understanding subjective experience and cognition more fully. Chapter 5 situates these results in the broader discussion of how we study subjectivity, and carves out a role for the Beholder's Share in future research characterizing individual differences.

ISBN10 : OCLC:1395058274 , ISBN13 :

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