The artful mind : cognitive science and the riddle of human creativity / edited by Mark Turner.
All normal human beings alive in the last fifty thousand years appear to have possessed, in Mark Turner's phrase, "irrepressibly artful minds." Cognitively modern minds produced a staggering list of behavioral singularities--science, religion, mathematics, language, advanced tool use,...
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Table of Contents:
- Art and cognitive evolution / Merlin Donald
- The aesthetic faculty / Terrence Deacon
- A cognitive account of aesthetics / Francis Steen
- Composition and emotion / David Freedberg
- The art of compression / Mark Turner
- The cognitive tango / Lawrence M. Zbikowski
- Dynamics of completion / Shirley Brice Heath
- The neuroscience of form in art / George Lakoff
- Form and meaning in art / Per Aage Brandt
- Slippages of meaning and form / Stephen Murray
- Making relics work / Robert A. Scott
- Architectural space as metaphor in the Greek sanctuary / Gloria Ferrari
- The neurology of ambiguity / Semir Zeki
- Mastering ambiguity / Marc De Mey.