A Walk in the Park: Kinesthesia in the Arts of Landscape

by Susan Pashman

Current neuroscience discloses that all emotional feeling originates as movement. Kinesthesia, our sixth sense, begins with movement of muscle cells and ends as emotion. Depth perception, which depends on movement, is always feeling-laden. To be expressive, art must somehow move our bodies.
Studies of expressive dance demonstrate that we unconsciously model observed movements, duplicating in ourselves the feelings that generated the dancer's movements...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900469692X
• ISBN13: 9789004696921
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"