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Item Number: 134872
Title: Modern Art at the Border of Mind and Brain
Author: Fineberg, Jonathan
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780803249738
Description: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. 24cm., hardcover, 216pp. illus. Summary: Human beings have made images continuously for more than thirty thousand years. The oldest known cave paintings are six times older than the first forms of written language. Images help us organize our thoughts and represent them in our memory. We make images, Jonathan Fineberg argues, because we need them to aid not only in structuring our social and psychological self-conceptions but also in developing the circuitry of our brains. Modern Art at the Border of Mind and Brain is a broad investigation by one of the foremost scholars of modern art on the relationship between modern art and the structure of the mind and brain. Based on Fineberg’s Presidential Lectures at the University of Nebraska, his book examines the relationship between artistic production, neuroscience, and the way we make meaning in form. Drawing on the art of Robert Motherwell, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Christo, Jean Dubuffet, and others, Fineberg helps us understand the visual unconscious, the limits of language, and the political impact of art. Throughout he works from the conviction that looking is a form of thinking that has a profound impact on the structure of the mind.
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