Strange tools : art and human nature / Alva Noë.
- Noë, Alva
- Date:
- 2015
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
New York : Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Physical description
x, 285 pages ; 24 cm
Contributors
Edition
First edition.
Contents
Getting organized -- Reorganizing ourselves -- Designers by nature -- Art loops and the garden of eden -- Art, evolution, and the puzzle of puzzles -- A short note on ecstasy, sports, and humor -- Philosophical objects -- See me if you can! -- Why is art so boring? -- Art and the limits of neuroscience -- Art is a philosophical practice, and philosophy an aesthetic one -- Making pictures -- Using models -- Pictorial strategies -- Air guitar styles -- The sound of music -- A very abbreviated and highly opinionated history of aesthetics.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineZH.PXOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9780809089178
- 0809089173
- 9781429945257
- 1429945257