Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A life-altering, science-backed exploration of the healing power of art, which has now been proven to help lower stress, supercharge learning and creativity, extend your lifespan, and combat loneliness.
“This book blew my mind!”—Angela Duckworth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Grit
A BLOOMBERG BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • Finalist for the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award and the Porchlight Business Book Award
What is art? Many of us think of the arts as entertainment—a luxury of some kind. In Your Brain on Art, authors Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross show how activities from painting and dancing to expressive writing, architecture, and more are essential to our lives.
We’re on the verge of a cultural shift in which the arts can deliver potent, accessible, and proven solutions for the well-being of everyone. Magsamen and Ross offer compelling research that shows how engaging in an art project for as little as forty-five minutes reduces the stress hormone cortisol, no matter your skill level, and just one art experience per month can extend your life by ten years. They expand our understanding of how playing music builds cognitive skills and enhances learning; the vibrations of a tuning fork create sound waves to counteract stress; virtual reality can provide cutting-edge therapeutic benefit; and interactive exhibits dissolve the boundaries between art and viewers, engaging all of our senses and strengthening memory. Doctors have even been prescribing museum visits to address loneliness, dementia, and many other physical and mental health concerns.
Your Brain on Art is a portal into this new understanding about how the arts and aesthetics can help us transform traditional medicine, build healthier communities, and mend an aching planet.
Featuring conversations with artists such as David Byrne, Renée Fleming, and evolutionary biologist E. O. Wilson, Your Brain on Art is an authoritative guide to neuroaesthetics. The book weaves a tapestry of breakthrough research, insights from multidisciplinary pioneers, and compelling stories from people who are using the arts to enhance their lives.
From the Publisher
ASIN : B0B4QZ5V7R
Publisher : Random House (March 21, 2023)
Publication date : March 21, 2023
Language : English
File size : 26.5 MB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 392 pages
Thomas Oppenheim –
The Joyous Marriage of the Arts and Science!
Your Brain on Art, is is a brilliant book with a good heart, a magnificent mind, and important work to do in the world. In it we witness a wedding between the arts and science. The book announces the consummation of that marriage and celebrates its progeny: health, wellness, community, innovation, empowerment. The book beckons us to join this celebration. To quote from the book “Creative expression, the arts, and aesthetics serve a core purpose: To birth new thoughts, and ideas. To mirror back to one another what is important and what is needed. To weave together common threads of humanity. The arts empower us to reimagine, re-envision, and reconnect in order to create a better future together.” Thanks to this book we now know with scientific certitude what we hitherto only intuited: that the arts heal. Come one come all and join the party! Celebrate Your Brain on Art!
Amy Lawson –
Art & Your Health
I really enjoyed this book. I learned a lot about how art affects the processes in the brain – it is pretty amazing and interesting. It validates a lot of what I thought I knew. I am an elementary art teacher.
Sondrda Orr –
Art and brain connection.
Very informative research; not a quick read but interesting.
theDarkone –
Unlock Creativity & Well-Being! 🎨🧠
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us explores the powerful impact of art on our minds and lives. A must-read for creatives and educators! ✨📖 #ArtHeals #CreativeMind #NeuroscienceAndArt
Beverli Eagan –
This book is very helpful and the information is very current.
This is An amazing book. I have worked with children and adultsIn my career, and I have sharedThis boll with many of them. TheInformation is very current.
Amazon Customer –
must read for everyone!
great read and nicely researched!
Fritz Tegularius –
Bordering on pseudoscience
I pre-ordered this book with high expectations. When it was finally released, I read about half of it immediately and then returned it, disappointed.When a book’s description uses terms like “proof” I expect convincing, hard science. I didn’t find it here. The flowery first/second-person writing style, conveniently skipping over complexities and ambiguities in relevant research, reads more like a new-age self-help book than a book intending to explain a complex science, let alone offer proof.All of us know intuitively that art is beneficial in many ways. I had hoped this book would offer a more solid scientific foundation for this intuition. Alas, the scientific examples provided are oversimplified and anecdotal.In recent years we’ve seen various pseudo-scientific theories claiming to be “proven” by such things as quantum mechanics or other sciences, in ways that would make true scientists cringe and protest. It looks like the trend has now reached neuroaesthetics.The Kindle version is not well implemented. In many places in the book you will find references to image inserts. These references are not linked. You have to abandon your spot, page to the end of the book, find the proper insert (often not conveniently labeled), then find your way back to where you left off reading. After a couple of times doing that, I gave up looking at the reference images.
Matt Harline –
Connecting Your Brain Through Art
Loved reading (and re-reading) this book. Helped me understand how my artwork is helping my brain which was damaged in a bicycle accident 9 years ago.
Kathleen Modrowski –
“Your Brain on Art” provides a good understanding of why ideas we have practiced intuitively are useful, such as Art as a way to build community.
Kia Weberlein –
Kunst und Wissenschaft, Wissenschaft und Kunst – was lange als unvereinbar galt, endlich vereint in einem sehr informativen Buch mit teils wirklich erhellenden Fakten!
Cliente de Kindle –
Lo recomiendo totalmente, la forna en la que se divide el libro hace que sea más fácil de leer, neuroarts como forma de hacer crecer nuestra sociedad
Helena Wergles Ramos –
Eu ainda não estou nem na metade do livro e já estou revolucionada por ele. Já entendi que meu cérebro precisa de praticar artes (criatividade) com regularidade. A arte dá barato, e o livro explica isso com base na ciência. É maravilhoso. Recomendo muito pra todo mundo que sente conexão com as experiências estéticas, seja artes formais ou até simplesmente estar na natureza – caso você queira descobrir porque você se sente tão restaurado na natureza ou na prática ou contato com artes. É uma leitura que pode ajudar muitas pessoas a recuperarem a saúde mental de formas práticas através de práticas simples de artes, mesmo sem talento etc. Tudo sempre explicando os efeitos de vários estímulos sensoriais e emocionais etc – no cérebro. É uma leitura bem interessante e necessária.
Jan Fretz –
Excellent