Modern Art at the Border of Mind and Brain

by Jonathan Fineberg

Human beings have made images continuously for more than thirty thousand years. The oldest known cave paintings are between six and ten times older than the first forms of written language. Images help us organize our thoughts and represent them in our memory. We make images, Jonathan Fineberg argues, because we need them to aid not only in structuring our social and psychological self-conceptions but also in developing the circuitry of our brains...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080324973X
• ISBN13: 9780803249738
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 2.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.2" x 10.3"