02201nam 2200505Ia 450 991081946130332120240418144659.00-19-988559-11-280-84656-90-19-534563-01-4294-3851-7(MiAaPQ)EBC415831(CKB)1000000000403762(EXLCZ)99100000000040376220051102d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe artful mind cognitive science and the riddle of human creativity /edited by Mark Turner1st ed.New York Oxford University Press20061 online resource (331 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-985103-4 0-19-530636-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexAll 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 hArtPsychologyCognitionCreative abilityArtPsychology.Cognition.Creative ability.701.15Turner Mark1954-275468MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819461303321The artful mind4092246UNINA