Your Brain on art : : how the Arts Transform us
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"Have you ever gotten chills while listening to a particularly gorgeous piece of music? Or felt a sense of calm while gazing at a painting of a serene landscape? We have experiences like those every day, but rarely stop to consider what's happening internally to cause them. In Your Brain on Art, founder of the International Arts + Mind Lab at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Susan Magsamen and Google designer Ivy Ross explain how, by understanding how we biologically react to aesthetic experiences, we can not only heal as individuals but thrive as communities. Using the new science of neuroaesthetics, which explores our physiological reactions to art, Magsamen and Ross show us how, for instance, gardening can help a person heal from trauma or listening to a major fifth interval can snap the body out of a fight-or-flight response. Beyond enjoyment and abstraction, art can change the way we operate on a daily, practical level. And, in addition to helping each of us heal from stress, anxiety, burnout, and other malaises of modern life, neuroaesthetics can effect major change in society writ large, whether through public art murals in high-crime areas or music and dance therapy for patients experiencing neurodegenerative disorders"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Random House, [2023]
Year Published: 2023
Description: 280 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780593449233
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Ross, Ivy, 1955-
SUBJECTS
Aesthetics -- Psychological aspects.
Arts -- Psychological aspects.