{"product_id":"9781899828951","title":"Art, Culture and Nature: From Art History to World Art Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe present volume gathers together a selection of the editorials, articles, conference papers and essays, though which he has furthered his own attempts to renew art history and participated in those of others. They reflect the influence of many personal contacts built up during three decades of teaching and lecturing in many countries in Europe, America, Asia and Australia. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contents: \u003cbr\u003e Theory. Art history, Kunstgeschichte and historia\u003cbr\u003e Art and ritual. The biological connection\u003cbr\u003e Architecture, metaphor and the mind\u003cbr\u003e I wonder. . . A short history of amazement\u003cbr\u003e World Art Studies and the need for a new natural history of art; Architecture and painting: the biological connection \u003cbr\u003e Inside the brain: looking for the roots of art history \u003cbr\u003e Gombrich and the biological explanation of art \u003cbr\u003e Prehistory. The origins of art \u003cbr\u003e The biological and geographical bases of cultural borders: the case of the earliest Palaeolithic art\u003cbr\u003e Ancient world. From the double crown to the double pediment\u003cbr\u003e Tabernacle and Temple and the Cosmos of the Jews\u003cbr\u003e War, mathematics and art in Classical Greece\u003cbr\u003e Idea and product: potter and philosopher in Classical Athens\u003cbr\u003e The Greek temple and the Greek brain\u003cbr\u003e Quintilian and the idea of Roman art\u003cbr\u003e Abstraction and imagination in Late Antiquity\u003cbr\u003e Renaissance. Alberti and Filarete\u003cbr\u003e Brunelleschi: humanist or nationalist\u003cbr\u003e Leon Battista Alberti: the problem of personal and urban identity\u003cbr\u003e How to listen to Renaissance art\u003cbr\u003e The biological basis of Renaissance aesthetics\u003cbr\u003e Alberti and the neuropsychology of style\u003cbr\u003e China. Chinese painting in the Twentieth Century and in the context of World Art Studies\u003cbr\u003e The Nature of art in Lin Fengmian's China: a neuropsychological perspective\u003cbr\u003e Additional Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pindar Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052303204592,"sku":"9781899828951","price":282.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781899828951_p0.jpg?v=1763611323","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781899828951","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}