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Unit 2 Lesson: Portraits as Faces
Portraits have been a part of human civilization for thousands of years. According to the famous Roman historian and naturalist, Pliny the Elder (AD...
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Unit 4 Lesson: Why Is en face Associated with Holiness?
Portraits of Christ as a holy person are predominantly en face. This was famously commented by Albrecht Dürer in a self-portrait often called “Myself...
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Unit 1 Overview: A Critical Assessment of Neuroaesthetics as Experimental Science—Chances, Challenges, Required Commitments
This chapter shows how a neuroscientific approach can contribute to understanding aesthetical phenomena We also discuss challenges and clear...
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Introduction: Representative Foci in Neuroaesthetics—Subjectivist, Objectivist, and Interactionist Perspectives
Welcome to Neuroaesthetics! This exciting, new, interdisciplinary field brings together subjects as seemingly far apart as neurobiology and art...
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Unit 2 Overview: Neuroaesthetics Approaches to the Visual Arts—Perception Focus Topic: CGI-Generated Creative Content and Artificial Intelligence
Neuroaesthetics seeks to unravel the neural mechanisms underlying both bottom-up and top-down processes in perception. By studying how the brain...
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The Fall and Rise of Exile’s Return: Malcolm Cowley and the Cultural Politics of Revision
In 1934, the American literary critic and historian Malcolm Cowley (1898–1989) published Exile’s Return: A Narrative of Ideas. The book discussed the...
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Introduction: Retrospection and Revision in Contemporary Art, Literature, and Music
The introduction to the interdisciplinary collection Retrospection and Revision in Modern and Contemporary Art, Literature and Music delineates the...
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Retrospective Anticipation: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Efforts at Controlling Her Legacy
American painter Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) experienced not only the rise of her oeuvre, but also its fall and reappraisal. In the 1970s and 1980s,...
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Space, Time, and Change in Claude Monet’s Late Paintings
This chapter demonstrates through close visual analysis that Monet’s late paintings differ significantly from the artist’s earlier creations, in...
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An Old Man Looking from the Window: Camille Pissarro, the Tuileries Garden Paintings, and Turning Points in His Career
This chapter’s point of departure is a series of paintings from 1898 to 1899 by Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) showing the Tuileries Gardens in Paris,...
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Making a Pause in Street Life: Not Moving as an Art Practice
In this chapter, we analyze how artistic actions can change the rhythm and pace of our movement in the city, literally and metaphorically. Both a...
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Visualization
3D computer-based visualization refers to all those methodologies adopted to produce, represent, describe, transmit, and present graphically/visually...
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Scholarly Method
As this chapter shows, digital 3D reconstructions of historic architecture serve many purposes in research and related areas. This comprises...
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Documentation
The documentation of the working steps, the decisions made in a reconstruction, the applied method, and the results form one of the cornerstones of...
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The Beginnings: Venice and the East in the Tre and Quattrocento
Pictorial representations, world chronicles and geographical maps provide significant indications of the expansion of knowledge in the context of...
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Collecting Ancient Egyptian Objects
In the sixteenth century, Ancient Egyptian artifacts increasingly arrived in Venice and became part of cabinets of curiosities and antiquarian...
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Conclusion: Future Applications, Technologies, and Directions
The following conclusion serves as a forward-looking summary of the evolving field of neuroarts. It discusses the potential for personalization in...
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To Sound the Drum: A Dialogue on Value and Change in Relation to First Nations Music and Research in the Academy
A raft of complex and dynamic barriers to the participation and inclusion of First Peoples and Indigenous knowledges and practices in the academy...
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Reconfiguring Gender, Sexuality, Music, and Higher Education
An abundance of research in music focused on composers who identify as women and/or lesbians has emerged since the 1980s, but the impacts of...
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Dialectic as a Therapy Against the Modern Ignorance That Produces Planetary Crises
This chapter introduces the three interrelated concepts addressed by this book – nature, sustainability and future. I posit that modern society has...