Creative Cognition And The Cultural Panorama Of Twentieth-Century Spain Hardcover

India

Candelas Gala

Poets and artists create works that astound and move us, but what is the nature of their creative process? How do thought and reality, the physical and the psychological, interact in their work? How do they use body and mind, emotions and cognition, the objective and the subjective, to reconcile the self and the world, art and reality? What means do they use to convey their vision? Creative Cognition and the Cultural Panorama of Twentieth Century-Spain is a multidisciplinary study of poets, plastic artists, and philosophers mainly from twentieth-century Spain. It focuses on the creative state as the nucleus of the artist's work as it brings forth cognitive experiences that are out of the ordinary realm of knowledge about the self, art, and the world. Not a strictly neurobiological approach, it takes cognitive science as a point of departure to explore the mental processes and structures that underline creative thinking.

1137512261

9781137512260

English

Palgrave MacMillan

20 May 2015

254

Candelas Gala is the Charles E. Taylor Professor of Romance Languages at Wake Forest University, USA

Candelas Gala, Charles E. Taylor Professor of Romance Languages at Wake Forest University, offers in this book a new instance of her long research engagement with the connections between twentieth century Spanish poetry, art, and science. ... Gala's book is a powerful reminder, in these dire times of the dismissal of the humanities, that art is a unique and irreplaceable form of knowledge." (Juan Herrero-Senes, Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, newprairiepress.org, June, 2017)