Strange Tools
Art and Human Nature

While I did enjoy much of Strange Tools as its viewpoint is sympathetic with my goals as an artist and of a particular type of artistic practice that I value highly, I would disagree with the author that this one branch of artistic pursuit is the only one worthy of being defined as art. One of the c......more

After reading this book I was released from a strict European idea that artists are not the ones who proclaim themselves as artists but the ones that are officially institutionalized. Somehow our society likes to think that some institution has a power to tell who's artist and who's not. And then fe......more

A difficult book to read, unless you skip parts (some points are repeated at different places). The main premise, I would have to say, is that one cannot explain human interest in and understanding of art by studying it as a phenomenon of the brain. Rather, it involves us as entire human beings, of......more

Tämä oli aivan kiinnostava. Perusajatuksena kirjassa on, että taide käyttää tekniikan menetelmiä, mutta sen sijaan, että siitä syntyisi jotakin hyödyllisiä, konkreettisia työkaluja, syntyykin omituisia työkaluja jotka määrittyvät taiteeksi juuri sen kautta että niitä ei ensisijaisesti käytetä mihink......more

This is my second Alva Noe book. I like him. He's very smart. He has good ideas and writes very clearly. It's remarkable for a philosopher to be able to express complex ideas that I can understand without having to reread them three or four times. For a while I have been toying with the idea that the......more