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Marie Pascal, « Slopek, Edward. Bodies of Art: The Shaping of Aesthetic Experience », Belphégor, ID : 10.4000/belphegor.4739
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This intriguing book immediately throws the reader into a disciplinary maze (social theory, cultural studies, philosophy, psychology, and the humanities), and attempts to shed some light on common (mis)conceptions about the body and mind dichotomy. Short though dense, this essay aims to uncover the realities of the brain’s impact on our aesthetic understanding of art – according to Slopek, the body is crucial to all aesthetic experience – putting on a pedestal the “corporeal imagination” that...