Feeling Beauty
The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience
$70.86
- Paperback
280 pages
- Release Date
30 January 2015
Summary
A theory of the neural bases of aesthetic experience across the arts, which draws on the tools of both cognitive neuroscience and traditional humanist inquiry.In Feeling Beauty, G. Gabrielle Starr argues that understanding the neural underpinnings of aesthetic experience can reshape our conceptions of aesthetics and the arts. Drawing on the tools of both cognitive neuroscience and traditional humanist inquiry, Starr shows that neuroaesthetics offers a new model for understanding the dynamic a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262527446 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262527448 |
| Author: | G. Gabrielle Starr |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 30 January 2015 |
| Weight: | 336g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 137mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Feeling Beauty |
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An ambitious text…exciting as it is timely… Feeling Beauty is at its best when Starr is engaged in close reading leading the reader step by step through a careful explanation and elucidation of a body of text with the aid of her model…clear, legible, and, frankly, a delight to read.
* Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism *Feeling Beauty by G. Gabrielle Starr is an elegantly written (lucid and even literary) examination of the neurobiology of aesthetic experience crossing poetry, visual art, and music.
* Consciousness, Literature and the Arts *Feeling Beauty, however, is distinctive in both presenting new research on the regions of the brain activated by intense aesthetic responses and suggesting the ways in which this research might open up a new, dynamic understanding of aesthetics.
* Modern Philology *About The Author
G. Gabrielle Starr
G. Gabrielle Starr is Seryl Kushner Dean of the College of Arts and Science and Professor of English at New York University.
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