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The Unification of the Arts - A Framework for Understanding What the Arts Share and Why (Hardcover)
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The Unification of the Arts - A Framework for Understanding What the Arts Share and Why (Hardcover)
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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 arts under a single theoretical perspective.
This book presents the first integrated cognitive account of the
arts that unites visual art, theatre, literature, dance, and music
into a single framework, with supporting discussions about
creativity and aesthetics. Its comparative approach identifies both
what is unique to each artform and what they share, shedding light
on how the arts can combine with one another to form syntheses,
such as choreographing dance movements to music, or setting lyrics
to music to create a song. While studies in the psychology of the
arts tend to focus on perceptual processes and aesthetic responses
alone, this book offers a holistic sensorimotor account that
examines the full gamut of processes from creation to perception.
This allows for a broad discussion of the evolution of the arts,
including the origins of rhythm, the co-evolution of music and
language, the evolution of drawing, and cultural evolution of the
arts. Finally, the book unifies a number of topics that have not
previously been fully related to one another, including theatre and
literature, music and language, creativity and aesthetics, dancing
and acting, and visual art and music. A unique volume providing a
bold new approach to the integration of the arts, for academics or
general readers of the arts, psychology, cognitive neuroscience,
anthropology, and evolutionary studies.
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