The artful mind :

The artful mind : cognitive science and the riddle of human creativity / edited by Mark Turner. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. - xvi, 314 p. : ill., music ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Art and cognitive evolution / The aesthetic faculty / A cognitive account of aesthetics / Composition and emotion / The art of compression / The cognitive tango / Dynamics of completion / The neuroscience of form in art / Form and meaning in art / Slippages of meaning and form / Making relics work / Architectural space as metaphor in the Greek sanctuary / The neurology of ambiguity / Mastering ambiguity / Merlin Donald -- Terrence Deacon -- Francis Steen -- David Freedberg -- Mark Turner -- Lawrence M. Zbikowski -- Shirley Brice Heath -- George Lakoff -- Per Aage Brandt -- Stephen Murray -- Robert A. Scott -- Gloria Ferrari -- Semir Zeki -- Marc De Mey.

0195306368 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780195306361 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Art--Psychology.
Cognition.
Creative ability.

N71 .A762 2006
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