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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911102365303321
• 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
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 314 pages) : illustrations, music
• 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: 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.
• 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