"In a thoughtful and entertaining manner, the book explores how the brain interprets art by engaging our sensations, thoughts, a nd emotions. It describes interesting findings from psychological and brain sciences as a way to understand our aesthetic response to art. Beauty, dis…
Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part an artist can promote new emancipatory social relations. Around the world, the champions of this form of expr…
Met talrijke voorbeelden uit de kunstgeschiedenis toegelichte studie over de steeds veranderende wijze waarop de kunstenaar uitbeeldt wat hij ziet en ervaart en over de factoren die daarop van invloed zijn
"While recent studies in neuroscience and psychology have shed light on our sensory and perceptual responses to art, they have yet to explain our responses to contemporary art which downplays perceptual responses and instead encourages conceptual thought. The Psychology of Conte…
Participation in art has become a prevalent and contested phenomenon since the 1990s. Artists have increasingly sought to create situations and events that invite spectators to become active participants. This development is placed in historical and theoretical context in key wr…
by Hendrix, John, Carman, Charles H.
fromVisual culture in early modernity
How are processes of vision, perception, and sensation conceived in the Renaissance? How are those conceptions made manifest in the arts? The essays in this volume address these and similar questions to establish important theoretical and philosophical bases for artistic product…
"Jungian Arts-Based Research and 'The Nuclear Enchantment of New Mexico' provides clear, accessible and in-depth guidance both for arts-based researchers using Jung's ideas and for Jungian scholars undertaking arts-based research. The book provides a central extended example whi…
by De Botton, Alain, Armstrong, John, School of Life (Business enterprise)
Describes a new way of looking at familiar masterpieces, suggesting that the works of art can be useful, relevant--and even therapeutic.
by De Botton, Alain, Armstrong, John, School of Life (Business enterprise)
Describes a new way of looking at familiar masterpieces, suggesting that the works of art can be useful, relevant--and even therapeutic.
"In What We Made, Tom Finkelpearl examines the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art. He suggests social cooperation as a meaningful way to think about this work and provides a framework for understanding its emergence and ac…
"In What We Made, Tom Finkelpearl examines the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art. He suggests social cooperation as a meaningful way to think about this work and provides a framework for understanding its emergence and ac…
"Images can be studied in many ways--as symbols, displays of artistic genius, adjuncts to texts, or naturally occurring phenomena like reflections and dreams. Each of these approaches is justified by the nature of the image in question as well as the way viewers engage with it. …
