Brain and Art

Brain and Art
Author: Idan Segev
Publisher: Frontiers E-books
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2014-12-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 2889193608

Could we understand, in biological terms, the unique and fantastic capabilities of the human brain to both create and enjoy art? In the past decade neuroscience has made a huge leap in developing experimental techniques as well as theoretical frameworks for studying emergent properties following the activity of large neuronal networks. These methods, including MEG, fMRI, sophisticated data analysis approaches and behavioral methods, are increasingly being used in many labs worldwide, with the goal to explore brain mechanisms corresponding to the artistic experience. The 37 articles composing this unique Frontiers Research Topic bring together experimental and theoretical research, linking state-of-the-art knowledge about the brain with the phenomena of Art. It covers a broad scope of topics, contributed by world-renowned experts in vision, audition, somato-sensation, movement, and cinema. Importantly, as we felt that a dialog among artists and scientists is essential and fruitful, we invited a few artists to contribute their insights, as well as their art. Joan Miró said that “art is the search for the alphabet of the mind.” This volume reflects the state of the art search to understand neurobiological alphabet of the Arts. We hope that the wide range of articles in this volume will be highly attractive to brain researchers, artists and the community at large.

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems, book series, Vol. 11, 2016

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems, book series, Vol. 11, 2016
Author: Florentin Smarandache
Publisher: Infinite Study
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2016-06-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1599734672

This volume is a collection of fourteen papers, written by different authors and co-authors (listed in the order of the papers): N. Radwan, M. Badr Senousy, A. E. D. M. Riad, Chunfang Liu, YueSheng Luo, J. M. Jency, I. Arockiarani, P. P. Dey, S. Pramanik, B. C. Giri, N. Shah, A. Hussain, Gaurav, M. Kumar, K. Bhutani S. Aggarwal, V. Pătraşcu, F. Yuhua, S. Broumi, A. Bakali, M. Talea, F. Smarandache, M. Khan, S. Afzal, H. E. Khalid, M. A. Baset ,I. M. Hezam.

Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 Vol. Set)

Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 Vol. Set)
Author: Susan Sinclair
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 1510
Release: 2012
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9004170588

Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.

Explaining Creativity

Explaining Creativity
Author: R. Keith Sawyer
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 568
Release: 2012-01-12
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0199737576

Explaining Creativity is a comprehensive and authoritative overview of scientific studies on creativity and innovation. Sawyer discusses not only arts like painting and writing, but also science, stage performance, business innovation, and creativity in everyday life. Sawyer's approach is interdisciplinary. In addition to examining psychological studies on creativity, he draws on anthropologists' research on creativity in non-Western cultures, sociologists' research on the situations, contexts, and networks of creative activity, and cognitive neuroscientists' studies of the brain.

The Revival of Beauty

The Revival of Beauty
Author: Catherine Wesselinoff
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2023-08-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1000933903

This book provides original descriptive accounts of two schools of thought in the philosophy of beauty: the 20th-century “Anti-Aesthetic” movement and the 21st-century “Beauty Revival” movement. It also includes a positive defence of beauty as a lived experience extrapolated from Beauty-Revival position. Beauty was traditionally understood in the broadest sense as a notion that engages our sense perception and embraces everything evoked by that perception, including mental products and affective states. This book constructs and places in parallel with one another the Anti-Aesthetic and Beauty-Revival movements. In the author’s view, Anti-Aestheticism is devoted to a decisive negation of beauty—denying its importance as a philosophical notion and its significance as a lived experience. It suggests that beauty is a merely sensual experience, which can be used, at best, as a distraction from justice and, at worst, as an instrument of evil. Alternatively, the Beauty-Revival movement advances arguments for beauty as an experience that extends primarily to sensual experience, but which also calls forth mental products and cognitive and affective states evoked by that experience. After reconstructing these two positions, the author elaborates on the notion of beauty as a lived experience through three key moments which occur in the process of our experiencing beautiful objects. These moments are (a) the conditions that constitute an experience of beauty, (b) the attitudinal features most likely to lead to the experience of beauty, and (c) the results of the experience of beauty. The Revival of Beauty will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in aesthetics, history of philosophy, and art history.

Solid-Solid Phase Transformations in Inorganic Materials

Solid-Solid Phase Transformations in Inorganic Materials
Author: Yves Bréchet
Publisher: Trans Tech Publications Ltd
Total Pages: 1342
Release: 2011-06-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3038135100

Selected, peer reviewed papers from the conference on Phase Transformations in Inorganic Materials (PTM), June 2010, France.

Studio Downie Architecture

Studio Downie Architecture
Author: Studio Downie Architects
Publisher: Images Publishing
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2006
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781864701555

This new NeoArchitecture monograph presents the work of Studio Downie, a young practice whose work to date has mostly appeared in the UK, but is poised to make its mark on the world scene. Craig Downie studied architecture within the layered environment

Privacy@work

Privacy@work
Author: Frank Hendrickx
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2023-06-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9403541652

The right to privacy is a fundamental right. Along with the related right to personal data protection, it has come to take a central place in contemporary employment relations and shows significant relevance for the future of work. This thoroughly researched volume, which offers insightful essays by leading European academics and policymakers in labour and employment law, is the first to present a thoroughly up-to-date Europe-wide survey and analysis of the intensive and growing interaction of workplace relations systems with developments in privacy law. With abundant reference to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, and the work of the International Labour Organisation, the book proceeds as a series of country chapters, each by a recognised expert in a specific jurisdiction. Legal comparison is based on a questionnaire circulated to the contributors in advance. Each country chapter addresses the national legal weight of such issues and topics as the following: interaction of privacy and data protection law; legitimacy, purpose limitation, and data minimisation; transparency; role of consent; artificial intelligence and automated decision-making; health-related data, including biometrics and psychological testing; monitoring and surveillance; and use of social media. A detailed introductory overview begins the volume. The research for this book is based on a dynamic methodology, founded in scientific desk research and expert networking. Recognising that the need for further guidance for privacy at work has been demonstrated by various European and international bodies, this book delivers a signal contribution to the field for social partners, practitioners, policymakers, scholars, and all other stakeholders working at the crossroads of privacy, data protection, and labour law.

Contemporary Commonwealth

Contemporary Commonwealth
Author: Gabeba Baderoon
Publisher: National Gallery of Victoria
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Twenty two artists from Australia and across the Commonwealth were presented in an exhibition that was the flagship program of the Commonwealth games.