Embodied aesthetics : : proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind, 26th-28th August 2013 / / edited by Alfonsina Scarinzi ; contributors, Xavier Escribano [and seven others].

• Superior document: Philosophy of History and Culture, Volume 34
• Author: International Conference on Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind
• TeilnehmendeR: Scarinzi, Alfonsina,; Escribano, Xavier,; International Conference on Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophy of history and culture ; Volume 34.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

This volume discusses the role of embodiment in the reevaluation of aesthetics as a process of bodily mediated meaning-making. It focuses on the bodily basis of aesthetic appreciation from an evolutionary point of view, on the bodily physical structures such as the brain involved in perception, on aesthetic experience and appreciation, on the role of physiological responses in experiencing the objects of the environment aesthetically, on the role of one's own body in motion in the engagement with the environment, on somatic responses and the experience of meaning, on the pre-reflective experience of the body, on the role of the interplay of different types of physical and sensory activities in the process of education to art appreciation.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Alfonsina Scarinzi -- 1 The Evolutionary Roots of Aesthetics: An Approach-Avoidance Look at Curvature Preference / Enric Munar , Gerardo Gómez-Puerto and Antoni Gomila -- 2 A Neuro-Evolutionary Mechanism for Aesthetic Phenomenology / Joshua Fost -- 3 Interaction of Perception and Imagination in Pictorial Space Experience / Joanna Ganczarek , Vezio Ruggieri , Daniele Nardi and Marta Olivetti Belardinelli -- 4 Effortless Bodies and Beyond / Barbara Gail Montero -- 5 The Dancing Body and the Revelation of Prepersonal Existence through Art / Xavier Escribano -- 6 How to Perceive Oneself Perceiving? Gardens, Movement and the Semiotics of Embodiment / Katarzyna Kaczmarczyk -- 7 From Film Studies to Interaction Design—An Emergent Aesthetics View / Xin Xia , Nimish Biloria and Bernhard Hommel -- 8 Spinoza, the Philosopher Craftsman: Understanding the World through Painting and Process / Paul Uhlmann -- Index.