The Unification of the Arts: A Framework for Understanding What the Arts Share and Why

ISBN-13: 9780198864875 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 400 str.

Steven Brown

Recenzje

The major strength of this book, however, is the broadening of scope and also its interdisciplinary approach...This is quite refreshing. Besides, the book also provides a lot of historical and philosophical digressions, such as Plato's distinction between modes of storytelling that are acted out (mimesis) or narrated (diegesis), Aristotle's concept of imitation and catharsis, Diderotâs definition of acting theory, Baumgarten's view on aesthetics, Rameauâs harmonicity theory on the origins of scales, and Rousseau's conception of the joint origin of music and language. The multiple illuminating figures and tables with classification schemes are also quite refreshing and inspiring.

O autorze

Steven Brown is Director of the NeuroArts Lab in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour at McMaster University in Canada. He obtained his Ph.D. in the Department of Genetics and Development at Columbia University in New York, and did postdoctoral research at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. His research deals with the neural and evolutionary bases of the arts. He is co-editor of two books: The Origins of Music (MIT Press) and Music and Manipulation (Berghahn Books).