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1 online resource (xv, 341 pages) : color illustrations.
The book presents a basis for the interaction of the brain and nervous system with painting, music and literature, and a discussion of art from multiple facets - such as anatomy, migraine, illusion and evolutionary biology. The book explores several aspects of the neurobiology of painting, including evolutionary neurobiology, sensation vs. perception, the visual brain and how the mind works, and also explores the affects of brain disorders and trauma on artist, with a concluding chapter on Frida Kahlo and the spinal cord injury that influenced her painting.
Evolutionary neurobiology and art -- C.U.M. Smith ; SECTION I -- Visual Aspects : Perceptual portraits -- The neuropsychology of visual art; conferring capacity -- Vision, illusions, and reality -- Localization in the visual brain ; SECTION II -- Episodic disorders : Neurology, synaesthesia, and painting -- Fainting in classical art -- Migraine art in the internet: a study of 450 contemporary artists -- Sarah Raphael's migraine with aura as inspiration for the foray of her work into abstraction -- The visual of contemporary artists with epilepsy; SECTION III -- Brain damage: Creativity in painting and style in brain-damaged artists -- Artistic changes in alzheimer's disease; SECTION IV -Cerebrovasular disease: Stroke in painters -- Visuospatial neglect in Lovis Corinth's self-portraits -- Art, constructional apraxia and the brain; SECTION V -- Genetic diseases: Neurogenetics in Art -- A nai̋ve artist of St. Ives -Van Gogh's madness -- Absinthe, the nervous system and painting ; SECTION VI -- Neurologists as artists: Sir Charles Bell, KGH, FRS, FRSE (1774-1842) ; SECTION VII -- Miscellaneous : Peg leg Frieda -- The Deafness of Goya (1746-1828).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
San Diego, Calif. : Elsevier - Academic Press, ©2006
International review of neurobiology ; v. 74