Is Beauty in the Brain of the Beholder?

The article discusses a research in neuroesthetics that seek to determine what happens in the cerebral cortex when a person sees an art and in the process identifies what makes great works of art so mesmerizing. It states that Semir Zeki, a prime mover in neuroesthethics, has dicovered that more tha...

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Publicado en:ARTnews Vol. 109; no. 1; pp. 88 - 94
Autor principal: Landi, Ann
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Penske Business Media, LLC Jan2010
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