The artful mind [[electronic resource] ] : cognitive science and the riddle of human creativity / / edited by Mark Turner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784865103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• ISBN: 0-19-988559-1; 1-280-84656-9; 0-19-534563-0; 1-4294-3851-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (331 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): TurnerMark <1954->
• Disciplina: 701.15
• Soggetti: Art - Psychology; Cognition; Creative ability
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Contributors; Prologue; PART I: Art and Evolution; PART II: Art and Emotion; PART III: Art and the Way We Think; PART IV: Art, Meaning, and Form; PART V: Art and Sacred Belief; PART VI: Art and Ambiguity; Epilogue; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 now, and h