Embodying Art: How We See, Think, Feel, and Create Cappelletto Chiara
Embodying Art: How We See, Think, Feel, and Create Cappelletto Chiara In recent years, neuroscientists have made ambitious attempts to explain artistic processes and spectatorship through brain…
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Embodying Art: How We See, Think, Feel, and Create Cappelletto Chiara
In recent years, neuroscientists have made ambitious attempts to explain artistic processes and spectatorship through brain imaging techniques. 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. But can brain science really unravel the workings of art?
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 Chiara Cappelletto presents close readings of neuroscientific and philosophical scholarship as well as artworks and art criticism, identifying their epistemological premises and theoretical consequences.