Learning to Look Art World Dispatches by Alva No Hardcover English Edition

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The Nile on eBay Learning to Look by Alva Noë Learning to Look is a collection of short and accessible essays on how we experience art. In each chapter, Alva Noë starts from an experience of a particular artwork and from there shows how these works open new questions about philosophy, science, and ourselves. This is a companion work to Noe's 2019 volume, Infinite Baseball. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Learning to Look is a wandering journey through the nature of art - and the ways it can transform us, if we let it. Author of Infinite Baseball, Alva Noë, presents a collection of short, stimulating essays that explore how we experience art and what it means to be an "observer." Experiencing art - letting it do its work on us - takes thought, attention, and focus. It requires creation, even from the beholder. And it is in this process ofconfrontation and reorganization that artworks can lead us to remake ourselves. Ranging far and wide, from Pina Bausch to Robocop, from Bob Dylan to Vermeer, Noë uses encounters with specific artworks togain entry into a world of fascinating issues - like how philosophy and science are represented in film; what evolutionary biology says about art; or the role of relics, fakes, and copies in our experience of a work. The essays in Learning to Look are short, accessible, and personal. Each one arises out of an art encounter - in a museum, listening to records, or going to a concert. Each essay stands on its own, but taken together, they form an intimate picture of our relationship withart. Carefully articulating the experience of each of these encounters, Noë proposes that, like philosophy, art is a sort of technology for understanding ourselves. Put simply, art is an opportunity for us toenact ourselves anew. Author Biography Alva Noë is a writer and a philosopher living in Berkeley and New York. He works on the nature of mind and human experience. He is the author of Action in Perception (2004); Out of Our Heads (2009); Varieties of Presence (2012); and Strange Tools (2015). His latest book is Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher at the Ballpark (2019). Alva received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1995 and isProfessor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also a member of the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the Center for New Media. He previously was a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City Universityof New York. He has been philosopher-in-residence with The Forsythe Company and has also collaborated creatively with dance artists Deborah Hay, Nicole Peisl, Jess Curtis, Claire Cunningham, Katye Coe, and Charlie Morrissey. Alva is a 2012 recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and a former fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is a 2018 recipient of the Judd/Hume Prize in Advanced Visual Studies. Table of Contents PrefaceEncounters1 Soup is an anagram of opus2 I am sitting in a room3 40 speakers in a room4 Two left hands5 Rock art6 The power of performance7 Cheap thrills at the Whitney8 Whaling with Turner9 Take my breath away10 Speak, draw, dance11 Beach beasts on the move11 Making the work work13 Irrational man14 RoboCop's philosophers15 Pointing the way to liberation, in Star Trek: Voyager16 An Awkward SynthesisPictures17 The anatomy lesson18 The importance of being dressed19 The art of the brain20 Faces and masks21 The philosophical eye22 The camera and the dance23 Why are 3-D movies so bad?24 The myth of 3-D immersion25 Storying telling and the Review "Reading any chapter in Alva Noë's delightful new book is like visiting an exhibition - a play, a concert, a film - with a dear, kind friend who happens to be smarter, more perceptive, more eloquent than you could ever be. Whether Noë is writing about David Bowie's performance art or paintings by Vermeer's daughter, he gets at both the particulars of the work he's discussing and also its philosophical implications - how it sheds light on what it is to be human. Noe is pitching the transformative power of art, but he gets there by selling us on its pleasures." - Blake Gopnik, author of Warhol Long Description Learning to Look is a wandering journey through the nature of art - and the ways it can transform us, if we let it. Author of Infinite Baseball, Alva No Review Text "Reading any chapter in Alva No Review Quote "Reading any chapter in Alva No Feature Selling point: Presents short, entertaining, and probing essays on the power of artSelling point: Explores the nature of our interactions with art and how artworks can change usSelling point: Offers new perspectives on the relationship between, art, philosophy, and science New Feature Preface Encounters 1 Soup is an anagram of opus 2 I am sitting in a room 3 40 speakers in a room 4 Two left hands 5 Rock art 6 The power of performance 7 Cheap thrills at the Whitney 8 Whaling with Turner 9 Take my breath away 10 Speak, draw, dance 11 Beach beasts on the move 11 Making the work work 13 Irrational man 14 RoboCop's philosophers 15 Pointing the way to liberation, in Star Trek: Voyager 16 An Awkward Synthesis Pictures 17 The anatomy lesson 18 The importance of being dressed 19 The art of the brain 20 Faces and masks 21 The philosophical eye 22 The camera and the dance 23 Why are 3-D movies so bad? 24 The myth of 3-D immersion 25 Storying telling and the "uncanny valley" 26 Peering into Rembrandt's eyes 27 This is no zoo Art's Nature 28 Coughing and the meaning of art 29 Is it okay if art is boring? 30 The opportunity of boredom 31 Art placebo 32 Are works of art relics? 33 Reproductions in the age of originality 34 Who is Vermeer? 35 How to love a fake 36 Monuments 37 Mind in the natural world: Can physics explain it? Nature's art 38 Aesthetic evolution 39 Bowie, cheesecake, sex, and the meaning of music 40 Dylan's literature 41 What's new is old 42 The performance art of David Bowie, a remembrance 43 All Things Shining 44 You say 'tomato' 45 What is a fact? 46 Streams of memes 47 Adele in the goldilocks zone 48 Art at the limits of neuroscience Acknowledgements Details ISBN 0190928212 Short Title Learning to Look Language English ISBN-10 0190928212 ISBN-13 9780190928216 Format Hardcover Subtitle Dispatches from the Art World Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Year 2022 Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2022-04-05 UK Release Date 2022-04-05 NZ Release Date 2022-04-05 US Release Date 2022-04-05 DEWEY 111.85 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly AU Release Date 2022-05-18 Author Alva Noë Pages 216 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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