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This book focuses on externalist approaches to art. It is the first fruit of a workshop held in Milan in September 2009, where leading scholars in the emerging field of psychology of art compared their different approaches using a neutral language and discussing freely their goa…
Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts is the first student-friendly introduction to the uses of cognitive science in the study of literature, written specifically for the non-scientist. Patrick Colm Hogan guides the reader through all of the major theories of cognitive sci…
"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…
"Whether exploring the intimate recollections which make up the artist's own past or questioning the way the gallery and museum present public memory as history, contemporary art, it would seem, is haunted by the past. Contemporary Art and Memory is the first accessible survey b…
Maclagan shows that each of the marginal forms of drawing -- scribbling, doodling, and automatic drawing -- has its own history in spiritualism, surrealism, abstract expressionism, and psychedelic art and considers their new relationship to twenty-first-century digital culture
