Rhythm in Art, Psychology and New Materialism

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'This is a wonderful book, giving us new ways of understanding art and illustrated with well-chosen artwork. It is a story of the interplay between mind and matter, revealing the rhythmic textures of artistic creation and taking us beyond art itself into perceptual psychology, evolution and neuroscience.' Michael Corballis, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Auckland, New Zealand, and author of The Truth about Language 'The author has an astonishing knowledge of great thinkers, artists, art criticism and neuroaesthetics. It is a remarkably easy read, considering its subject, and it is no-where self-indulgent or pretentious. If I were to teach any course on twentieth-century art or abstraction, I would adopt it as a textbook or required reading.' John Onians, Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of East Anglia, UK, and author of Neuroarthistory: From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki 'Gregory Minissale offers an enthralling analysis of the vibrant materiality of abstract art. He brilliantly shows that to be truly open to the encounter with art one needs to embrace perceptual ambiguity and let go of rigorous cognitive control. Masterfully intertwining theories of art reception with phenomenology and recent findings in cognitive sciences, he casts light on the complexity of aesthetic relations unfolding beneath the surface of the conscious mind.' Cristina Albu, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA, and author of Mirror Affect: Seeing Self, Observing Others in Contemporary Art
 
'This is a wonderful book, giving us new ways of understanding art and illustrated with well-chosen artwork. It is a story of the interplay between mind and matter, revealing the rhythmic textures of artistic creation and taking us beyond art itself into perceptual psychology, evolution and neuroscience.' Michael Corballis, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Auckland, New Zealand, and author of The Truth about Language
'The author has an astonishing knowledge of great thinkers, artists, art criticism and neuroaesthetics. It is a remarkably easy read, considering its subject, and it is no-where self-indulgent or pretentious. If I were to teach any course on twentieth-century art or abstraction, I would adopt it as a textbook or required reading.' John Onians, Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of East Anglia, UK, and author of Neuroarthistory: From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki
'Gregory Minissale offers an enthralling analysis of the vibrant materiality of abstract art. He brilliantly shows that to be truly open to the encounter with art one needs to embrace perceptual ambiguity and let go of rigorous cognitive control. Masterfully intertwining theories of art reception with phenomenology and recent findings in cognitive sciences, he casts light on the complexity of aesthetic relations unfolding beneath the surface of the conscious mind.' Cristina Albu, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA, and author of Mirror Affect: Seeing Self, Observing Others in Contemporary Art