Although beauty has been a central topic in aesthetics, the neuroaesthetics of beauty has brought us to the point of wondering if, in spite of its name, the new discipline is about aesthetics at all. With David Freedberg, we enter a different world—one that promises a more sophisticated treatment of art as well as smarter ways of linking neuroscientific knowledge and the aesthetic relation.
In that book, Freedberg (1989) wished, as Ernst Gombrich (1990) noted in a sharp review, “to lead the response to art back to our elementary reactions.”
Cover of the book, found at the website for the University of Chicago Press.
David Freedberg is best known for his work on psychological responses to art, and particularly for h...
Inspired by the homonymous book by Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega, this timespace presents the authors' genealogy of the cerebral subject and the influence of the neurological discourse in human sciences, mental health and culture.