Embodied aesthetics : proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind, 26th-28th August 2013 /

This volume discusses the role of embodiment in the reevaluation of aesthetics as a process of bodily mediated meaning-making. It focuses on the bodily basis of aesthetic appreciation from an evolutionary point of view, on the bodily physical structures such as the brain involved in perception, on a...

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Corporate Author: International Conference on Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind Delmenhorst, Germany)

Other Authors: Scarinzi, Alfonsina.

Format: Conference Proceeding eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

Series: Philosophy of History and Culture 34.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287471.

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Call Number: BH39 .I565 2014

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction /
  • Alfonsina Scarinzi
  • 1 The Evolutionary Roots of Aesthetics: An Approach-Avoidance Look at Curvature Preference /
  • Enric Munar , Gerardo Gómez-Puerto and Antoni Gomila
  • 2 A Neuro-Evolutionary Mechanism for Aesthetic Phenomenology /
  • Joshua Fost
  • 3 Interaction of Perception and Imagination in Pictorial Space Experience /
  • Joanna Ganczarek , Vezio Ruggieri , Daniele Nardi and Marta Olivetti Belardinelli
  • 4 Effortless Bodies and Beyond /
  • Barbara Gail Montero
  • 5 The Dancing Body and the Revelation of Prepersonal Existence through Art /
  • Xavier Escribano
  • 6 How to Perceive Oneself Perceiving? Gardens, Movement and the Semiotics of Embodiment /
  • Katarzyna Kaczmarczyk
  • 7 From Film Studies to Interaction Design-An Emergent Aesthetics View /
  • Xin Xia , Nimish Biloria and Bernhard Hommel
  • 8 Spinoza, the Philosopher Craftsman: Understanding the World through Painting and Process /
  • Paul Uhlmann
  • Index.