Strange tools : art and human nature / Alva Noë.
By: Noë, Alva [author.].
Publisher: New York : Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2015]Edition: First edition.Description: xiii, 285 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780809089178 (hardcover).Subject(s): Art -- PsychologyGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | N71 .N64 2015 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000007689 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-273) and index.
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.