1985, ISBN: 9781453602911

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Hardback. New. In Feeling Beauty, G. Gabrielle Starr argues that understanding the neural underpinnings of aesthetic experience can reshape our conceptions of aesthetics and the arts. D… More...

Hardback. New. In Feeling Beauty, G. Gabrielle Starr argues that understanding the neural underpinnings of aesthetic experience can reshape our conceptions of aesthetics and the arts. Drawing on the tools of both cognitive neuroscience and traditional humanist inquiry, Starr shows that neuroaesthetics offers a new model for understanding the dynamic and changing features of aesthetic life, the relationships among the arts, and how individual differences in aesthetic judgment shape the varieties of aesthetic experience. Starr, a scholar of the humanities and a researcher in the neuroscience of aesthetics, proposes that aesthetic experience relies on a distributed neural architecture -- a set of brain areas involved in emotion, perception, imagery, memory, and language. More important, it emerges from networked interactions, intricately connected and coordinated brain systems that together form a flexible architecture enabling us to develop new arts and to see the world around us differently. Focusing on the sister arts of poetry, painting, and music, Starr builds and tests a neural model of aesthetic experience valid across all the arts. Asking why works that address different senses using different means seem to produce the same set of feelings, she examines particular works of art in a range of media, including a poem by Keats, a painting by van Gogh, a sculpture by Bernini, and Beethoven's Diabelli Variations. Starr's innovative, interdisciplinary analysis is true to the complexities of both the physical instantiation of aesthetics and the realities of artistic representation., Paperback. New. Paperback. 602 pages. The NonceA gripping tale of a forbidden and passionate love affair. Sean is an artist who has made it when he was just in his twenties and his work sells for huge sums of money on the international art market. He has bought a beautiful country house in Kent with a couple of acres of land and is into self sufficiency and organic farming. Sean has been lucky in life with success coming at an early age but is unlucky in love until he meets the nubile Rita in a local discotheque. Rita falls in love with Sean at first sight and makes up her mind there and then to get him and when she visits his home she seduces him. The feeling of love is mutual and all seems well until Sean sees her on a trip into town wearing a school uniform and discovers that she has lied to him about her age and in fact is not seventeen but fourteen! The revelation comes as a shock to Sean who tries to give her up but finds that he is so much in love with her that he cannot end their passionate affair. Soon the lovers are living together with the permission of Ritas liberally minded parents, and all seems well until the authorities discover that they are engaged to be married and living together as man and wife. Suddenly Seans beautiful magical world is blown to smithereens. He is prosecuted but refuses to plead guilty because he does not think that he has committed a crime. In the political climate of the time 1985 in Thatchers Britain he is made an example of and sentenced to eighteen months in prison. Read about the brutal, violent and degrading environment in the closed prison Bandsworth where he is first sent, the screws, the homosexuality, the drugs, corruption, endemic violence and how prisoners are made to behave by the offer of early parole and a move to an open prison. Sean is labelled a Nonce the derogatory word for convicts who have been found guiltyof having sex with someone under the age of consent. Because of this he is attacked, , but is able to defend himself because he is fit, strong and an expert in martial arts. In contrast to the violence read about the uninhibited , passionate lovemaking between Sean and Rita a modern Romeo and JulietRead about Seans experiments with hallucinogenic fungi which he consumes to increase his aesthetic perceptions into reality, a la Salvador Dali, one of his idols, and to create works of art in different mindstates. Read about the easy life and the kindness of the staff in an open prison Hayhill which is in total contrast to the horrible Badsworth where he is incarcerated at first. Finally read about his passionate love of drawing and painting in creating his forte in the genre of erotic art. I know that you will find this controversial book a fascinating read. Yours Sincerely, Michael J Freemanauthor This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN.<

ISBN: 9781453602911

Michael J Freeman, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by CreateSpace Publishing Books, Fiction~~Romance~~General, Nonce~~Michael-J-Freeman, 999999999, The Nonce, Michael J Freeman, … More...

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