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Mind Wide Open
BRILLIANTLY EXPLORING TODAY'S CUTTING-EDGE BRAIN RESEARCH, MIND WIDE OPEN IS AN UNPRECEDENTED JOURNEY INTO THE ESSENCE OF HUMAN PERSONALITY, ALLOWING READERS TO UNDERSTAND THEMSELVES AND THE PEOPLE IN THEIR LIVES AS NEVER BEFORE. Using a mix of experiential reportage, personal storytelling, and fresh scientific discovery, Steven Johnson describes how the brain works -- its chemicals, structures, and subroutines -- and how these systems connect to the day-to-day realities of individual lives. For a hundred years, he says, many of us have assumed that the most powerful route to self-knowledge took the form of lying on a couch, talking about our childhoods. The possibility entertained in this b...
The Connoisseur
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The World in Paint
Familiar narratives about the nature of English modernism, &"tradition,&" and &"periodization,&" together with the &"literary&" character of English art from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, are abandoned in this innovative and important book. In their stead, David Peters Corbett proposes a new way of looking at this painting from the Pre-Raphaelites to the Vorticists. Arguing that art history has been too reluctant to confront the fundamental question of how and what the consistency and application of paint signifies, Corbett investigates the work of English artists&—among them Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Leighton, Watts, Whistler, Sickert, and the modernists of 1914 &—through a historical examination of the meanings of the visual in English culture. By revealing that for many artists and thinkers the visual promised to deliver a more profound understanding of the world than language, the book offers a new reading of the art of the period between 1848 and the First World War.
Visión y diferencia
Desde su primera publicación en Inglaterra, Visión y diferencia. Feminismo, feminidad e historias del arte ha sido continuamente citado como un ensayo pionero en la articulación del análisis erudito de obras artísticas con la intensa problematización de esas obras desde una perspectiva teórica marxista y feminista. ¿Por qué el cuerpo femenino desnudo fue el campo de batalla del modernismo? ¿Cuál es el vínculo entre clase social, práctica artística y arte moderno, y qué lugar ocupan las mujeres en esa triangulación? ¿Qué relación existe entre el signo «mujer» y el mito del artista genio? ¿Cómo negocia la práctica artística feminista los significados asociados a ese si...
