Modern Art at the Border of Mind and Brain - Rilegato

Fineberg, Jonathan

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ISBN 10: 080324973X ISBN 13: 9780803249738

Casa editrice: Univ of Nebraska Pr, 2015

Riassunto

Human beings have made images continuously for more than thirty thousand years. The oldest known cave paintings are between six and ten times older than the first forms of written language. Images help us organize our thoughts and represent them in our memory. We make images, Jonathan Fineberg argues, because we need them to aid not only in structuring our social and psychological self-conceptions but also in developing the circuitry of our brains.

Modern Art at the Border of Mind and Brain is a broad investigation by one of the foremost scholars of modern art of the relationship between modern art and the structure of the mind and brain. Based on Fineberg’s Presidential Lectures at the University of Nebraska, his book examines the relationship between artistic production, neuroscience, and the way we make meaning in form. Drawing on the art of Robert Motherwell, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Christo, Jean Dubuffet, and others, Fineberg helps us understand the visual unconscious, the limits of language, and the political impact of art. Throughout, he works from the conviction that looking is a form of thinking that has a profound impact on the structure of the mind.

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L'autore:

Jonathan Fineberg is Visiting Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine, and Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois. He is a trustee emeritus of the Phillips Collection in Washington, where he was founding director of the Center for the Study of Modern Art. He is the author of several books, includingArt since 1940: Strategies of Being.

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• Editore: Univ of Nebraska Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 080324973X
• ISBN 13: 9780803249738
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 181