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Titolo: | The artful mind [[electronic resource] ] : cognitive science and the riddle of human creativity / / edited by Mark Turner |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (331 p.) |
Disciplina: | 701.15 |
Soggetto topico: | Art - Psychology |
Cognition | |
Creative ability | |
Altri autori: | TurnerMark <1954-> |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The artful mind |
ISBN: | 0-19-988559-1 |
1-280-84656-9 | |
0-19-534563-0 | |
1-4294-3851-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910784865103321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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