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Genre/Form: | History (form) |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Onians, John, 1942- Neuroarthistory. New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, ©2007 (OCoLC)735328168 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Onians |
ISBN: | 9780300126778 0300126778 |
OCLC Number: | 173640968 |
Description: | xiv, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Neural subjects: Aristotle -- Pliny the elder -- Apollonius of Tyana -- al-Haytham -- Alberti -- Leonardo -- Hogarth -- Burke -- Montesquieu -- Winckelmann -- Kant -- Marx -- Ruskin -- Pater -- Taine -- Vischer -- Göller -- Wölfflin -- Riegl -- Freud -- Dewey -- Herskovits -- Gombrich -- Baxandall -- Zeki. |
Responsibility: | John Onians. |
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Abstract:
There has been increase in both the quantity and the quality of our knowledge about the brain, especially the visual brain. Knowledge of phenomena such as neural plasticity and neural mirroring is making it possible to answer some of the questions about both creative process and response to art. This title offers an account of neuroarthistory.
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An "ambitious study" - Steven Jaron, The Burlington Magazine"A book that changes everything"- David Carrier, Champney Family Professor, Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Art Read more...
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