Embodying Art: How We See, Think, Feel, and Create

Chiara / Fleck Cappelletto

280 pages, parution le 07/11/2022

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Chiara Cappelletto recasts the relationship between neuroscience and aesthetics and calls for shifting the focus of inquiry from the brain itself to personal experience in the world. Embodying Art offers a strikingly original and profound philosophical account of the human brain as a living artifact.In recent years, neuroscientists have made ambitious attempts to explain artistic processes and spectatorship through brain imaging techniques. But can brain science really unravel the workings of art? Is the brain in fact the site of aesthetic appreciation?

Embodying Art recasts the relationship between neuroscience and aesthetics and calls for shifting the focus of inquiry from the brain itself to personal experience in the world. Chiara Cappelletto presents close readings of neuroscientific and philosophical scholarship as well as artworks and art criticism, identifying their epistemological premises and theoretical consequences. She critiques neuroaesthetic reductionism and its assumptions about a mind/body divide, arguing that the brain is embodied and embedded in affective, cultural, and historical milieus.

Cappelletto considers understandings of the human brain encompassing scientific, philosophical, and visual and performance arts discourses. She examines how neuroaesthetics has constructed its field of study, exploring the ways digital renderings and scientific data have been used to produce the brain as a cultural and visual object. Tracing the intertwined histories of brain science and aesthetic theory, Embodying Art offers a strikingly original and profound philosophical account of the human brain as a living artifact.Acknowledgments
Neuroaesthetics Reloaded
1. 1994: Putting Neuroaesthetics on the Map
2. Neuroaesthetics: Cerebral Attributes and Bodily Ghosts
3. Neuroarthistory: On Emotions, Matter, and Time
4. Neuroartcriticism: From the Artist's Lesions to the Artwork and Vice Versa
5. The Brain's Iconoclash
6. Brains on Stage
Notes
Bibliography
Appendix: Artworks on the Brain
IndexChiara Cappelletto is an associate professor in aesthetics in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Milan. She is the author or editor of several books and essays in Italian on aesthetics, visual and performing arts, and phenomenology.

Samuel Fleck is a translator specializing in French and Italian literary and scholarly texts. He holds a PhD in Italian language and literature from Columbia University.

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Éditeur(s)	Columbia univ p
Auteur(s)	Chiara / Fleck Cappelletto
Parution	07/11/2022
Nb. de pages	280
EAN13	9780231195874

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