The neural imagination : aesthetic and neuroscientific approaches to the arts / / Irving Massey

• Autore: Massey Irving
• Pubblicazione: Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), music
• Disciplina: 701/.1
• Soggetto topico: Neurosciences and the arts; Arts
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: The Imagination, Neural -- Chapter 1. Background, Purposes, and Limitations of the Inquiry -- Chapter 2. Neuroscience and the Visual Arts -- Chapter 3. At the Limits of Language -- Chapter 4. Music and Language in Dream -- Part 2: The Imagination, Plain -- Chapter 5. The Three Fields -- Part 3: Conclusions -- Chapter 6. Ideas and Values -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Art and technology have been converging rapidly in the past few years; an important example of this convergence is the alliance of neuroscience with aesthetics, which has produced the new field of neuroaesthetics. Irving Massey examines this alliance, in large part to allay the fears of artists and audiences alike that brain science may "explain away" the arts. The first part of the book shows how neuroscience can enhance our understanding of certain features of art. The second part of the book illustrates a humanistic approach to the arts; it is written entirely without recourse to neuroscience, in order to show the differences in methodology between the two approaches. The humanistic style is marked particularly by immersion in the individual work and by evaluation, rather than by detachment in the search for generalizations. In the final section Massey argues that, despite these differences, once the reality of imagination is accepted neuroscience can be seen as the collaborator, not the inquisitor, of the arts.
• Altri titoli varianti: Aesthetic and neuroscientific approaches to the arts
• Titolo autorizzato: The neural imagination
• ISBN: 0-292-79345-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823116103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cognitive approaches to literature and culture series.