Learning to Look. Dispatches from the Art World 1st Edition Alva Noë

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Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0190928239
• ISBN-13: 9780190928230
• Author: Alva Noë

Learning to Look is a wandering journey through the nature of art – and the ways it can transform us, if we let it. Author of Infinite Baseball, Alva No”e, presents a collection of short, stimulating essays that explore how we experience art and what it means to be an “observer.” Experiencing art – letting it do its work on us – takes thought, attention, and focus. It requires creation, even from the beholder. And it is in this process of confrontation and reorganization that artworks can lead us to remake ourselves. Ranging far and wide, from Pina Bausch to Robocop, from Bob Dylan to Vermeer, No”e uses encounters with specific artworks to gain entry into a world of fascinating issues – like how philosophy and science are represented in film; what evolutionary biology says about art; or the role of relics, fakes, and copies in our experience of a work. The essays in Learning to Look are short, accessible, and personal.

Table contents:

Part I Encounters
1. Soup Is an Anagram of Opus
2. I Am Sitting in a Room
3. Forty 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
12. 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

Part II 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 3D Movies So Bad?
24. Storytelling and the “Uncanny Valley”
25. Peering into Rembrandt’s Eyes
26. This Is No Zoo

Part III Art’s Nature
27. Coughing and the Meaning of Art
28. Is It Okay if Art Is Boring?
29. The Opportunity of Boredom
30. Art Placebo
31. Are Works of Art Relics?
32. Reproductions in the Age of Originality
33. Who Was Vermeer?
34. How to Love a Fake
35. Monuments

Part IV Nature’s Art
36. Aesthetic Evolution
37. Bowie, Cheesecake, Sex, and the Meaning of Music
38. Dylan’s Literature
39. What’s New Is Old
40. The Performance Art of David Bowie: A Remembrance
41. All Things Shining
42. You Say “Tomato”
43. What Is a Fact?
44. Streams of Memes
45. Adele in the Goldilocks Zone
46. Mind in the Natural World: Can Physics Explain It?
47. Art at the Limits of Neuroscience

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