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Art Without Borders: A Philosophical Exploration of Art and Humanity,   ISBN:9780226736099

     
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Binding: Hardcover
Release Date: April 2009
Edition: 1
List Price: $35.00

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ISBN-13: 9780226736099
ISBN-10: 0226736091
Author: Ben-Ami Scharfstein
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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People all over the world make art and take pleasure in it, and they have done so for millennia. But acknowledging that art is a universal part of human experience leads us to some big questions: Why does it exist? Why do we enjoy it? And how do the world’s different art traditions relate to art and to each other?

Art Without Borders is an extraordinary exploration of those questions, a profound and personal meditation on the human hunger for art and a dazzling synthesis of the whole range of inquiry into its significance. Esteemed thinker Ben-Ami Scharfstein’s encyclopedic erudition is here brought to bear on the full breadth of the world of art. He draws on neuroscience and psychology to understand the way we both perceive and conceive of art, including its resistance to verbal exposition. Through examples of work by Indian, Chinese, European, African, and Australian artists, Art Without Borders probes the distinction between accepting a tradition and defying it through innovation, which leads to a consideration of the notion of artistic genius. Continuing in this comparative vein, Scharfstein examines the mutual influence of European and non-European artists. Then, through a comprehensive evaluation of the world’s major art cultures, he shows how all of these individual traditions are gradually, but haltingly, conjoining into a single current of universal art. Finally, he concludes by looking at the ways empathy and intuition can allow members of one culture to appreciate the art of another.

Lucid, learned, and incomparably rich in thought and detail, Art Without Borders is a monumental accomplishment, on par with the artistic achievements Scharfstein writes about so lovingly in its pages.

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Why, to Remain Human, We Need Art
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I gladly accept Amazon's invitation to review, as by chance it turns out to be, the book I finished writing not so many months ago. I wrote it in order to teach myself why humans everywhere have at all times practiced art, that is,why a life without art is no more possible to humans than a life without song is possible to a songbird. I wrote it, too, to learn in what ways neuroaesthetics may help us to answer this question. And I wrote it to learn to distinguish between the natures of Western art, Indian art, Chinese and Japanese art, and so-called "primitive" art. To what extent, I've asked myself, are the members of one art tradition open to the art of another? To what extent can we see a work of art as it exists in its own, native place and yet experience it intimately, somewhat as it was created? Can art be judged in something like an appreciative and yet generally human spirit? When I look at the bibliography of my book, I am amazed that I had the patience to pursue the answers so far over so many years. This pursuit has been, as I say at the end, a long but captivating journey, in which I hope, you will join me.

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