Art and Identity : Essays on the Aesthetic Creation of Mind.

Art has the capacity to shape and alter our identities. It can influence who and what we are. Those who have had aesthetic experiences know this intimately, and yet the study of art's impact on the mind struggles to be recognized as a centrally important field within the discipline of psycholog...

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Main Author: Roald, Tone
Other Authors: Lang, Johannes
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2013.
Series:Consciousness, literature & the arts.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Identity, Bodily Meaning, and Art; Acts not Tracts! Why a Complete Psychology of Art and IdentityMust Be Neuro-cultural; I Am, Therefore I Think, Act, and Express both in Life and in Art; Sense, Modality, and Aesthetic Experience; Reading Proust: The Little Shock Effects of Art; Becoming Worthy of What Happens to Us: Art and Subjectivity inthe Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze; Art and Personal Integrity; Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present:On Our New Relationship to Classics; List of Contributors; Index; Acknowledgements.