Art and the Brain: Plasticity, Embodiment, and the Unclosed Circle

381 Pages·2016·10.785 MB·English

by  Amy Ione

Art and the Brain
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Consciousness, Literature
and the Arts
General Editor
Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe (University of Lincoln, uk)
Editorial Board
Anna Bonshek (Prana World Group, Australia)
Per Brask (University of Winnipeg, Canada)
John Danvers (University of Plymouth, uk)
Amy Ione (Diatrope Institute, Berkeley, usa)
Michael Mangan (Loughborough University, uk)
Jade Rosina McCutcheon (Melbourne University, Australia)
Gregory Tague (St Francis College, New York, usa)
Arthur Versluis (Michigan State University, usa)
Christopher Webster (Aberystwyth University, uk)
Ralph Yarrow (University of East Anglia, uk)
VOLUME 47
The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/cla
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Art and the Brain
Plasticity, Embodiment, and the Unclosed Circle
By
Amy Ione
LEIDEN | BOSTON
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Cover illustration: “Art and the Brain” by Amy Ione, 2016.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Ione, Amy, author.
Title: Art and the brain : plasticity, embodiment, and the unclosed circle /
 by Amy Ione.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016. | Series: Consciousness, literature and
 the arts ; volume 47 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016029177 (print) | LCCN 2016029935 (ebook) | ISBN
 9789004322981 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9789004322998 (E-Book)
Subjects: LCSH: Neurosciences and the arts.
Classification: LCC NX180.N48 I59 2016 (print) | LCC NX180.N48 (ebook) | DDC
 700.1/9--dc23
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Contents
Acknowledgements xi
List of Illustrations xii
1 Introduction 1
2 Framing Art and the Brain 16
Deep Time and Deep History 18
Cave Painting 20
Trepanation 24
3 Ancient Foundations 33
Ancient Egypt 33
Ancient Greece 37
The Greek Body 41
Mind and Brain 43
Galen to the Middle Ages 48
4 The Brain Exposed and Printed 53
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) 56
Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) 61
Printmaking and Knowledge Practices 65
5 The Soul of the Empirical Brain: Thomas Willis and René Descartes 70
Neurology and Modern Philosophy 71
Experiment, Philosophy, and Cultural Mores 76
Innovation and Visualization 77
The Creative Brain Comparatively 81
6 The Empirical Brain in Context 88
William Hogarth and the Willis Brain 88
René Descartes and Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn 93
Distinctions and Generalizations 103
7 The Wondrous Book of the Human Brain in 3-Dimensions 108
Visualizing the Body 108
Working with Wax 114
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8 Art, Anatomy, and the Hunter Brothers 119
William Hunter 121
John Hunter 131
9 Art and Anatomy: Critics and Hired Hands 141
Hogarth, Science, and Society 142
William Blake’s Commentary 145
Scientific Illustrators 148
Jan van Rymsdyk 149
10 Electricity Sparks the Imagination 153
Historical Summary 153
Early Experiments 155
Electrical Entertainment 158
Benjamin Franklin and Luigi Galvani 162
11 The Promethean Human 168
Mary Shelley Births Frankenstein 168
Frankenstein as a Critique of Science 172
Four Frankenstein Themes 175
12 Human Autonomy and Light 184
Kant and Goethe 186
Kant, Goethe, and Optical History 194
Light and Human Autonomy 200
13 Human Physiognomy, Psychology, and Brain Functions 210
Phrenology and the Localization Debates 211
Physiognomy and Emotions 217
Charles Bell 223
Psychology and Sensation 228
14 Technological Innovations and the Nervous System 233
Neuroscience and Light Technologies 247
Movement and Time 249
Cultural Movement Enacted 252
15 The Possible, Improbable, and Realization of the Magical 257
Non-optical Technologies and Visualization 257
Sensations and Visualizations 266
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contents ix
16 Perception and Frames of Reference 279
Frames of Biological Evolution 282
Evolutionary Psychology? 288
Individual Perspectives, Memory, and Imagination 296
The Creativity Question 299
Postscript: The Malleability of History 303
Bibliography 309
Index 343
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