Feeling beauty : the neuroscience of aesthetic experience /
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| Author / Creator: | Starr, G. Gabrielle, 1974- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013] |
| Description: | xx, 259 page, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9290772 |
Table of Contents:
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Aesthetics, Neuroaesthetics, and the Sister Arts
- Pleasure and Emotion
- Imagination and Imagery
- Aesthetic Knowledge
- What Holds Aesthetic Experiences Together?
- Toward a Neuroaesthetic Model
- 1. Seen and Heard: A Model for the Sister Arts
- Emotion and Variation
- Pleasure, Comparison, and Reward
- Conceiving of Difference and of Self
- 2. Aesthetics beyond the Mind's Eye: Imagery and the Sister Arts
- The Imagery of Sense
- Knowledge and Multisensory Imagery
- Moving Pictures: Aesthetics and Imagery Networks
- 3. Toward a Dynamic Aesthetics: The Sister Arts and Beyond
- Invisible Beauty: Keats and the Limits of the Senses
- Dynamic Knowledge: Ovid, What Is New and What Is Not
- Music and Temporality: Beethoven and Bluegrass
- Endings and Rebirth: Van Gogh and Erasure
- Conclusion: Carmen Perpetuum
- Appendix: "The Brain on Art" (Excerpt)
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
