tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post4498272428588340162..comments2024-02-12T23:25:09.583-08:00Comments on Overweening Generalist: Trippy Art Theories From Oliver Sacks and His Antecedentsmichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-72365949956483630842013-06-15T23:50:44.879-07:002013-06-15T23:50:44.879-07:00Thanks!, The Super Melios!
You comment got sent t...Thanks!, The Super Melios!<br /><br />You comment got sent to my personal email and I thought, "What? Someone's commenting on an old post?" <br /><br />I've since read Sacks's book and found it most satisfying. I think the history of art theorizing is incredibly rich, but it's often emanated from a sort of armchair Platonified sort of philosophizing. <br /><br />Sacks is among a handful of writers from the sciences - esp the neurosciences - who have dared to write about art and the actual neurobiological processes in humans, and I see it as edifying discourse. Sack's book may be the best of the neurobiology-and-art- for-the-sophisticated-lay-reader books to come along so far.<br /><br />I am still a big fan of Gombrich though, and while I consider him more as drawing from a sort of Gestalt psychology than neuroscience, I think he still has a lot to offer...and he was one of the great all-around intellectuals of the 20th c.michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-32218841164116501852013-06-15T15:41:15.491-07:002013-06-15T15:41:15.491-07:00Great collection of thoughts and references, thank...Great collection of thoughts and references, thank youAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02651502180941123540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-388150466742838392012-12-04T12:07:36.103-08:002012-12-04T12:07:36.103-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com