Art History and Memory, From the Couch to the Scanner: On How the New Art history Woke Up to a Neural Future

• John Onians ^[1]
  1. [1] University of East Anglia

     University of East Anglia

     Norwich District, Reino Unido

     
• Localización: Art history: journal of the Association of Art Historians, ISSN 0141-6790, Vol. 40, Nº. 4, 2017, págs. 704-723
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • To look back over the last forty years of the journal is to be struck by the changes in intellectual climate and the successes and failures in meeting the goals of the original editorial vision. Most disappoiting is the neglect of neuroscience, which is particularly striking considering its earlier productive role in the principal tradition of art history. Most surprising is the way that postmodernism only slowly embraced it as a tool in spite of the fact that figures they most respected, such as Freud and Deleuze, were clear that any theory will be strengthened if based in neurobiology. Fortunately, though, there is now robust evidence that the climate is changing at both the individual and institutional level for reason that are exemplifies at the end of this essay.