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

La editorial Oxford University Press publicará el 22 de enero The Unification of the Arts: A Framework for Understanding What the Arts Share and Why de Steven Brown, director del Laboratorio NeuroArts en el Departamento de Psicología, Neurociencia y Conducta de la McMaster University de Canadá, y coeditor de los libros The Origins of Music (MIT Press, 2001) y Music and Manipulation (Berghahn Books, 2021).

What are the arts? What functions do the arts serve in human life? There has been a surge of cognitive, biological, and evolutionary interest in the arts in recent years, most of it oriented towards individual artforms. However, there has been virtually no bridging work to integrate the artsunder a single theoretical perspective.This book presents the first integrated cognitive account of the arts that unites visual art, theatre,…