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Taylor & Francis Alois Riegl in Vienna 18751905
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Naturalized Aesthetics
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge International Handbook of
Book Synopsis The Routledge International Handbook of Neuroaesthetics is an authoritative reference work that provides the reader with a wide-ranging introduction to this exciting new scientific discipline. The book brings together leading international academics to offer a well-balanced overview of this burgeoning field while addressing two questions central to the field: how the brain computes aesthetic appreciation for sensory objects and how art is created and experienced.The editors, Martin Skov and Marcos Nadal, have compiled a neuroscientific, physiological, and psychological overview of the systems underlying the evaluation of sensory objects and aesthetic appreciation. Covering a variety of art forms mediated by vision, audition, movement, and language, the handbook puts forward a critical review of the current research to explain how and why perceptual and emotional processes are essential for art production. The work also unravels the interaction of art wTrade Review"Considering how important to us are aesthetic experiences of all sorts—art, music, architecture, food and more—it is remarkable how long it took for early threads of scientific inquiry into their neural basis to start to be woven into whole cloth. This engaging handbook provides a wonderfully comprehensive overview of the current state of neuroaesthetics across modalities, across empirical and theoretical means of investigation and analysis, and across the implications for well-being and health. No serious student of the discipline should be without it."Peter Dayan, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics"In this very timely and comprehensive volume, editors Martin Skov and Marcos Nadal have brought together a wealth of empirical findings and theoretical points of view on the topic of neuroaesthetics. It’s remarkable that there is so much excellent material to cover, considering that the term neuroaesthetics itself is rather new, and the field is still nascent to some extent. But this handbook will contribute greatly to the future development and consolidation of this exciting research area by bringing together scholars and research themes that fall under its umbrella. Students and established investigators alike will find much to like in the remarkable breadth of topics, covering not only basic sensory processes that contribute to aesthetic experiences, but also research on a variety of art forms, including visual art, music, dance, poetry, architecture and more. It’s the kind of book that I expect we will keep handy on our shelves (virtual or otherwise): to look up a quick fact, to learn about a new area, or to ponder enjoyably on a winter’s night."Robert J. Zatorre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University"When I was in grade 9, the National Gallery of Canada spent 1.76 million dollars on a painting of a red stripe on a blue background (Barnett Newman, Voice of Fire). As Canadians, my family was outraged at the misuse of taxpayer money. Twenty years later, having followed my own passion for painting, I found myself giving a tour of the Gallery’s prized collections. I entered the room housing the painting and lost my breath. The artwork hasn’t changed—my brother still thinks it’s a waste of funds—but my experience of it has surprisingly metamorphosed and I now consider it a masterpiece. Meanwhile, the last twenty years has witnessed the maturation of neuroscience as a discipline, enabled by new ways of measuring brain function and new theories that link brains and behavior that have given birth to another surprise: neuroaesthetics. This book brings together the leading experts in this gangly teenager of a discipline, which is still figuring out what kinds of questions it can ask yet full of potential to make real an ultimate promise of neuroscience—to explain what makes us human and why we can find an experience aesthetic." Bevil R. Conway, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of HealthTable of ContentsContributorsPreface1 Neuroaesthetics as a scientific discipline: An intellectual historyMartin SkovPART 1: AESTHETIC LIKING2 Sensory liking: How nervous systems assign hedonic value to sensory objectsMartin Skov3 The neurobiology of likingEloise Stark, Kent C. Berridge and Morten L. Kringelbach4 Disliking: From adaptive disgust to uglinessChristoph Klebl, Michael Donner and Indra Bishnoi5 The influence of interoceptive signals on the processing of external sensory stimuliAlejandro Galvez-Pol, Enric Munar and James. M. Kilner6 Neural correlates of visual aesthetic appealEdward A. Vessel, Tomohiro Ishizu and Giacomo Bignardi7 Auditory pleasure elicited by musicErnest Mas-Herrero8 Odour aesthetics: Hedonic perception of olfactory stimuliGulce Nazli Dikecligil and Jay Gottfried9 Movement appreciationKohinoor M. Darda, Ionela Bara and Emily S. Cross10 The neuroscience of architecture: Beauty and behavior in the built environmentAlex Coburn, Adam Weinberger and Anjan Chatterjee11 Sexual selection, aesthetic appreciation, and mate choiceMichael J. Ryan12 Aesthetic sensitivity: Origin and development of an ideaAna Clemente13 The evolution of sensory valuation systemsEsther Ureña and Marcos NadalPART 2: ART14 Perception and cognition in visual art experienceRebecca Chamberlain15 The music systemAmy M. Belfi and Psyche Loui16 Watching and engaging in danceBeatriz Calvo-Merino17 Making sense of space: The neuroaesthetics of architectureZakaria Djebbara, Lars Brorson Fich and Giovanni Vecchiato18 Literature and poetryArthur M. Jacobs19 NarrativeFranziska Hartung20 Music-evoked emotions: Their contribution to aesthetic experiences, health, and well-beingLiila Taruffi and Stefan Koelsch21 The health benefits of art experienceClaire Howlin22 Experiencing art in museumsAniko Illes & Pablo P. L. Tinio23 Context and complexity of aesthetic experiences: A neuroscientific viewJulia Crone and Helmut Leder24 Experiencing art in social settingsHaeeun Lee and Guido Orgs25 Top-down processes in art experienceAenne A. Brielmann26 Preferences need inferences: Learning, valuation, and curiosity in aesthetic experienceSander van de Cruys, Jo Bervoets and Agnes Moors27 Neuroscience of artistic creativityOshin Vartanian28 Expertise and the brain of the performing artistFredrik Ullén29 The evolution of symbolic material cultureFrancesco d'Errico30 Neuropsychology of art and aestheticsAlejandro Dorado and Marcos NadalIndex
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Taylor & Francis Art in the North of England 19792008
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Taylor & Francis Curating Dramaturgies How Dramaturgy and Curating are Intersecting in the Contemporary Arts
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Taylor & Francis Time in the History of Art
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
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Taylor & Francis Nell Walden Der Sturm and the Collaborative
Book SynopsisBased on hitherto overlooked archival material, this book reveals Nell Waldenâs significant impact on the Sturm organisation through a feminist reading of supportive labour that highlights the centrality of collaborative work within the modern art world. This book introduces Walden as an ardent collector of modern and indigenous art and critically contextualises her own art production in relation to expressionist concepts of art and to gendered ideas on abstraction and decoration. Visual analyses highlight how she collaborated with professional and experimental women photographers during the Weimar era and how the circulation of these photographs served as a means to intervene in the public sphere of culture in interwar Germany. Finally, the book provides an analysis of Waldenâs continuing work for Der Sturm after her voluntary exile from Germany to Switzerland in 1933 and highlights the importance of womenâs supportive labour for the canonisation and institutionalisation of Trade Review"Skrubbe’s book – innovative both in content as well as in methodology – illuminates the inspiring ways in which Nell Walden had succeeded in claiming agency and control over her multifaceted role as a representative of Der Sturm. ... It is an absolute must-read for everyone professionally active in the field or wanting to learn more on Der Sturm and the indispensable role that Nell Walden has played in it."--Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: In the Margins of the Centre 1. Companion, Friend, and Fellow Combatant 2. The Walden Art Collection 3. Sturm Artist XIV 4. Securing Visibility, Maintaining Presence 5. Histories and Archives
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Art Science and Technology Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Art Criticism and Modernism in the United States
Book SynopsisThis study is an analysis of ''high'' and ''late'' modernist criticism in New York during the 1960s and early 1970s. Through a close reading of a selection of key critics of the periodwhich will expand the remit beyond the canonical textsthe book examines the ways that modernist criticism's discourse remains of especial disciplinary interest.Despite its alleged narrowness and exclusion, the debates of the 1960s raised fundamental questions concerning the nature of art writing. Those include arguments around the nature of value and judgement; the relationship between art criticism and art history; and the related problem of what we mean by the contemporary.' Stephen Moonie argues that within those often-fractious debates, there exists a shared discourse. And further, contrary to the current consensus that modernists were elitist, dogmatic, and irrelevant to contemporary debates on art, the study shows that there is much that we can learn from reconsidering their writTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Clement Greenberg: ‘A Critic on the Side of History’ 2. ‘Restoring Modernism to Health’: Michael Fried 3. Rosalind Krauss: ‘A Broader Modernist Sensibility’ 4. ‘A Rigorous Dialectic of Seeing and Reading’: Annette Michelson 5. Harold Rosenberg: Action, Criticism, and History 6. ‘My Secret Life’: Leo Steinberg 7. Lawrence Alloway and the Complex Present Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Visual Communication for Social Work Practice
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Taylor & Francis The Evolution of the Image
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Taylor & Francis How To Do Politics With Art
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Taylor & Francis Imagining Jewish Art
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Using Art for Social Transformation
Social arts are manifold and are initiated by multiple actors, spaces, and direction from many directions and intentions, but generally they aim to generate personal, familial, group, community or general social transformation which can maintain and enhance personal and community resilience, communication, negotiation, and transitions, as well as help with community building and rehabilitation, civic engagement, social inclusion, and cohesion. Occurring via community empowerment, institutions, arts in health, inter-ethnic conflict, and frames of lobbying for social change, social art can transform and disrupt power relations and hegemonic narratives, destigmatize marginalized groups, and humanize society through creating empathy for the other. This book provides a broad range of all of the above, with multiple international examples of projects (photo-voice, community theater, crafts groups for empowerment, creative place-making, arts in institutions, and arts-based participa
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Using Art for Social Transformation
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Economics and Art Theory
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context
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Taylor & Francis Ltd PostConflict Participatory Arts
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ancient Art Revisited
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Counterfactualism in the Fine Arts
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Taylor & Francis Semiotics The Basics
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Taylor & Francis Remixing and Drawing Sources Influences Styles
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Taylor & Francis Between Art Practice and Psychoanalysis MidTwentieth Century
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Taylor & Francis New Geographies of Abstract Art in Postwar Latin America
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