| #146753 in Books | Alva No | 2016-09-27 | 2016-09-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 228.60 x.68 x6.00l,.0 | File Name: 0809089165 | 304 pages | Strange Tools Art and Human Nature
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| “Art starts when things get strange.” P. 100|By Wayne|Alva Noe, In Strange Tools, brings us through the semiotics of writing (“Art is writing ourselves” p. 206)), a strange tool (not merely functional) of Noe’s creativity (“Art looks like technology. It is useless technology; works of art are strange tools” p. 64), putting on display|||“With incisive arguments and in crisp and engaging prose, Strange Tools brings the discourse on the function of art and beauty to a different level.” ―Giovanni Frazzetto, Science|“A stimulating and wide-ranging investigation
A philosopher makes the case for thinking of works of art as tools for investigating ourselves
In Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, the philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva Noë argues that our obsession with works of art has gotten in the way of understanding how art works on us. For Noë, art isn't a phenomenon in need of an explanation but a mode of research, a method of investigating what makes us human--a strange tool. A...
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