Learning to Look is a collection of short and accessible essays on how we experience art. In each chapter, Alva Noë starts from an experience of a particular artwork and from there shows how these works open new questions about philosophy, science, and ourselves. This is a companion work to Noe's 2019 volume, Infinite Baseball.
Learning to Look is a collection of short and accessible essays on how we experience art. In each chapter, Alva Noë starts from an experience of a particular artwork and from there shows how these works open new questions about philosophy, science, and ourselves. This is a companion work to Noe's 2019 volume, Infinite Baseball.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Alva Noë is a writer and a philosopher living in Berkeley and New York. He works on the nature of mind and human experience. He is the author of Action in Perception (2004); Out of Our Heads (2009); Varieties of Presence (2012); and Strange Tools (2015). His latest book is Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher at the Ballpark (2019). Alva received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1995 and is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also a member of the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the Center for New Media. He previously was a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has been philosopher-in-residence with The Forsythe Company and has also collaborated creatively with dance artists Deborah Hay, Nicole Peisl, Jess Curtis, Claire Cunningham, Katye Coe, and Charlie Morrissey. Alva is a 2012 recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and a former fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is a 2018 recipient of the Judd/Hume Prize in Advanced Visual Studies.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Encounters 1 Soup is an anagram of opus 2 I am sitting in a room 3 40 speakers in a room 4 Two left hands 5 Rock art 6 The power of performance 7 Cheap thrills at the Whitney 8 Whaling with Turner 9 Take my breath away 10 Speak, draw, dance 11 Beach beasts on the move 11 Making the work work 13 Irrational man 14 RoboCop's philosophers 15 Pointing the way to liberation, in Star Trek: Voyager 16 An Awkward Synthesis Pictures 17 The anatomy lesson 18 The importance of being dressed 19 The art of the brain 20 Faces and masks 21 The philosophical eye 22 The camera and the dance 23 Why are 3-D movies so bad? 24 The myth of 3-D immersion 25 Storying telling and the "uncanny valley" 26 Peering into Rembrandt's eyes 27 This is no zoo Art's Nature 28 Coughing and the meaning of art 29 Is it okay if art is boring? 30 The opportunity of boredom 31 Art placebo 32 Are works of art relics? 33 Reproductions in the age of originality 34 Who is Vermeer? 35 How to love a fake 36 Monuments 37 Mind in the natural world: Can physics explain it? Nature's art 38 Aesthetic evolution 39 Bowie, cheesecake, sex, and the meaning of music 40 Dylan's literature 41 What's new is old 42 The performance art of David Bowie, a remembrance 43 All Things Shining 44 You say 'tomato' 45 What is a fact? 46 Streams of memes 47 Adele in the goldilocks zone 48 Art at the limits of neuroscience Acknowledgements
Preface Encounters 1 Soup is an anagram of opus 2 I am sitting in a room 3 40 speakers in a room 4 Two left hands 5 Rock art 6 The power of performance 7 Cheap thrills at the Whitney 8 Whaling with Turner 9 Take my breath away 10 Speak, draw, dance 11 Beach beasts on the move 11 Making the work work 13 Irrational man 14 RoboCop's philosophers 15 Pointing the way to liberation, in Star Trek: Voyager 16 An Awkward Synthesis Pictures 17 The anatomy lesson 18 The importance of being dressed 19 The art of the brain 20 Faces and masks 21 The philosophical eye 22 The camera and the dance 23 Why are 3-D movies so bad? 24 The myth of 3-D immersion 25 Storying telling and the "uncanny valley" 26 Peering into Rembrandt's eyes 27 This is no zoo Art's Nature 28 Coughing and the meaning of art 29 Is it okay if art is boring? 30 The opportunity of boredom 31 Art placebo 32 Are works of art relics? 33 Reproductions in the age of originality 34 Who is Vermeer? 35 How to love a fake 36 Monuments 37 Mind in the natural world: Can physics explain it? Nature's art 38 Aesthetic evolution 39 Bowie, cheesecake, sex, and the meaning of music 40 Dylan's literature 41 What's new is old 42 The performance art of David Bowie, a remembrance 43 All Things Shining 44 You say 'tomato' 45 What is a fact? 46 Streams of memes 47 Adele in the goldilocks zone 48 Art at the limits of neuroscience Acknowledgements
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Internetauftritt der buecher.de internetstores GmbH
Geschäftsführung: Monica Sawhney | Roland Kölbl | Günter Hilger
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Batheyer Straße 115 - 117, 58099 Hagen
Postanschrift: Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg
Amtsgericht Hagen HRB 13257
Steuernummer: 321/5800/1497
USt-IdNr: DE450055826
