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Art in the Age of Emergence delivers sensible emergent aesthetics, explaining the processes that happen in human minds when we share ideas as works of art, skewering the orthodoxies of contemporary art with pragmatic wisdom about why representational art thrives in the new millennium.
Art in the Age of Emergence has captured the imaginations of thinkers and artists alike. An indispensable read for those who want to understand representational art in the 21st Century.
- Sales Rank: #2562987 in Books
- Published on: 2015-01-01
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.10" h x .80" w x 5.80" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 195 pages
Review
"An author's greatest joy is to see his life's work brilliantly applied to new fields. The new paradigm of emergent complexity that is revolutionizing the sciences has indeed launched us into a new "age of emergence." With penetrating insight and provocative examples, Michael Pearce builds a new theory of art upon "emergent experiences" and the artworks that inspire them. This is aesthetics in the grand tradition - after reading it you won't see mind, matter, or art in the same way again."Philip Clayton
"Michael Pearce's Art in the Age of Emergence is one of those rare things - a genuinely constructive work. Drawing on resources from philosophy, spirituality and neuroscience, as well as his own engagement with the world of representational art, Pearce both acutely diagnoses the aesthetic bottle-neck of our times and points a way forward to a more aspirational and authentic form of art creation. Though some hackles will be raised by his deft puncturing of postmodern shibboleths, more will cheer.""...likely to influence and inspire artists for some time to come."Nathan Tierney
"The slow but steady return of representational art to the mainstream cannot - and should not - be complete until it is examined, like all worthy artistic phenomena, by learned and incisive commentators who can place it in its proper philosophical contexts. With Art in the Age of Emergence, Michael Pearce has provided just such an analysis, one that is both welcome and accessible to anyone who wants to understand how and why this important development is underway." Peter Trippi Editor-in-Chief, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine
"Michael Pearce is that rare phenomenon - a practicing artist who knows art from the inside and an intellectual versed in what the cognitive sciences teach us about why we make art. This book - part personal meditation, part philosophical exploration, and part scientific survey - is rewarding reading."
Stephen R. C. Hicks
Author of Explaining Postmodernism
"Pearce is perhaps the only serious art writer in America who offers toasts to Bouguereau and looks to theology for ideas about aesthetics. He is already at work on another book which will deal with emergence and kitsch. For now, his ideas and enthusiasms mark Pearce as decidedly contrarian." John Seed, Huffington Post
"[A] hugely enjoyable, intelligent and well-written book. Pearce has that rare ability of writing with both erudition and wit. He uses the science and literature of emergence and complexity to reinvigorate the discussion of what art is, but he manages to take us with him, captivating the reader with his encyclopedic knowledge of art, his poetic reflections on nature and life, and on what it is to be human. Pearce does more than talk about emergence; he gently enchants us with his wisdom and kindness, which ultimately offers something of an emergent experience in itself. This is a text that every artist ought to read." Alan J. Lawson American Arts Quarterly, 36: 1 (2016) "Michael Pearce's book is the first major effort to use emergence as a model for aesthetic theory. Partly a personal meditation, but also an exploration of scientific and philosophical ideas, Art in the Age of Emergence is intended to challenge the current orthodoxies of contemporary aesthetics. [...] Art in the Age of Emergence is a dense book that is ultimately quite optimistic, and a genuine conversation-starter." John Seed Professor of Art and Art History, Mt. Jacinta College Huffington Post "Michael Pearce is that rare phenomenon - a practicing artist who knows art from the inside and an intellectual versed in what the cognitive sciences teach us about why we make art. This book - part personal meditation, part philosophical exploration, and part scientific survey - is rewarding reading." Stephen R. C. Hicks Author of Explaining Postmodernism "The slow but steady return of representational art to the mainstream cannot - and should not - be complete until it is examined, like all worthy artistic phenomena, by learned and incisive commentators who can place it in its proper philosophical contexts. With Art in the Age of Emergence, Michael Pearce has provided just such an analysis, one that is both welcome and accessible to anyone who wants to understand how and why this important development is underway." Peter Trippi Editor-in-Chief, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine "An author's greatest joy is to see his life's work brilliantly applied to new fields. The new paradigm of emergent complexity that is revolutionizing the sciences has indeed launched us into a new "age of emergence." With penetrating insight and provocative examples, Michael Pearce builds a new theory of art upon "emergent experiences" and the artworks that inspire them. This is aesthetics in the grand tradition - after reading it you won't see mind, matter, or art in the same way again." Philip Clayton Author of Mind and Emergence: From Quantum to Consciousness "Michael Pearce's Art in the Age of Emergence is one of those rare things - a genuinely constructive work. Drawing on resources from philosophy, spirituality and neuroscience, as well as his own engagement with the world of representational art, Pearce both acutely diagnoses the aesthetic bottle-neck of our times and points a way forward to a more aspirational and authentic form of art creation. Though some hackles will be raised by his deft puncturing of postmodern shibboleths, more will cheer. This is a book that is likely to influence and inspire artists for some time to come." Nathan Tierney PhD, author of Imagination and Ethical Ideals
About the Author
Dr Michael Pearce lives in Thousand Oaks, California, where he teaches at California Lutheran University. With his friend Michael Lynn Adams, he founded The Representational Art Conference to counter the negativity of postmodern art theory and practice by providing a platform for the serious consideration of representational art in the 21st Century.
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Emergence and Consciousness
By Andrew Everett
Michael J. Pearce is an art professor who experienced a light bulb moment when he attended a talk in the philosophy department on the topic of emergence by a guest speaker. “Emergence, which describes the characteristics of forms that come out of complex systems, could apply especially well to how we experience art, how we understand aesthetics in relation to our evolving mind, and how we understand the creative process of making representational art… I suddenly realized that considering the relationship between emergence and consciousness could lead to a description of what distinguishes art objects from other things as we perceive them through our senses. Emergence allows us to define art!”
This book presents an interesting framework for thinking about art, although it is written in a dense academic style.
“Emergence fills the void left by the collapse of postmodernism because it offers the potential for a convincing new idealism that has its foundation in scientific investigation, making room for spirituality… and presenting a way to understand how they meet the consciousness of the beholder.”
“Art is better explained by looking at how the mind works than by looking at the products of mind. That’s why quite a lot of this book is about consciousness, because of the direct relationship between it and the making of art objects.”
“Consciousness evolves through emergent experiences, felt in their strongest manifestations as moments of revelation, or epiphany, or strong feelings of completion that we feel when we hear something or see something that seems to affirm our being… We have an enormous amount of such experiences when we are children… I’m calling them ‘emergent experiences’ because of their clear relationship to our experiences of the qualities that emerge from complexity.”
“Understanding complexity and emergence helps to explain what is happening when we have that wonderful experience of beautiful things which makes us feel uplifted, removed from daily life and in spiritual harmony with something greater than ourselves... The emergent experience is the moment of affirmation, of fulfillment, of a categorical generalization made in the brain, when we recognize a confirmation of our conceptual thought processes.”
“Emergence can help us to get to grips with qualities that are greater than the sum of their parts… Water is made of oxygen and hydrogen, but neither of those two elements is wet. Wetness is an emergent quality of water… Like wetness, the emergent experience of beauty is a quality that is greater than the sum of its parts.”
“Neuroscientist Semir Zeki considers art-making to be the equivalent of the neurologic process of seeing, which is a function of the brain… We only comprehend reality through our sensory perception of it, which means that it is entirely mediated and changed by the transference of information as sensory input to consciousness… What we describe as reality is actually a complex semiotic version of the actual thing—this stands for that.”
So what is art? “I cannot find a better explanation of what art is than this: art is an expression of mind in material, made solely for the purpose of providing the potential for emergent experience for another’s mind.” Thus, Duchamp’s urinal and Monzoni’s cans of feces are not art.
Of course, different artworks will resonate with different people. “Popular art is simply that which provides the emergent experience for a large number of people… Culture is the collective sharing of concepts made by individuals shaping reality into sensible forms… for the purpose of providing emergent experiences.”
“The usefulness of art for providing emergent experiences completes [Roger] Scruton’s efforts to find a harmonious relationship between art and utility, and eliminated Oscar Wilde’s hedonistic description of art as something absolutely useless, because the role of art as the provider of emergent experience is profoundly useful.”
The author concludes by writing, “Now I will return to my studio to paint, confident that I know why I do it.”
Michael J. Pearce is a refreshingly honest and intelligent voice in a field where people often kneel in reverence to b.s.
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