Neuroarthistory

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From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki

John Onians

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Exploring the writings of major thinkers (among them Montesquieu, Burke, Kant, Marx, and Freud), and leading art historians (including Pliny, Winckelmann, Ruskin, Pater, Gombrich, and Baxandall), as well as artists such as Alberti and Leonardo and scientists from Aristotle to Zeki, John Onians shows how an understanding of the neural basis of the mind contributes to an understanding of all human behaviors—including art.

John Onians taught art history at the University of East Anglia from 1971 to 2007 and is now professor emeritus.

"A book that changes everything"- David Carrier, Champney Family Professor, Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Art

"Onians demonstrates how neuroscience and philosophy can profoundly deepen our understanding of art. Onians' approach is both interdisciplinary and historical, taking the form of a series of investigations into the theories of famous thinkers. . . . Taken together, these diverse thinkers remind us that our concern with the convergence of art and the mind existed long before the MRI."—Seed Magazine

"A challenging examination of why art is so widespread—and why its manifestations are both so similar and so varied."—Scientific American

"In this provocative and ambitious book, John Onians proposes to lay the ground for a comprehensive neuroarthistory, that is, an attempt to understand artworks and the views of art historians in terms of the workings of the brain. . . . Onions has done us a service in bringing some historical perspective to current debates about the relevance of cognitive science to art."—Mark Rollins, Art Bulletin

ISBN: 9780300229547
Publication Date: September 12, 2017

240 pages, 6 x 9
50 b/w illus.

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