Re: [Fis] Plasticity and the History of Art

2008-09-23 Thread J . Onians
Dear Steve, I can understand your 'nervousness'! Your question is useful in helping me to think about what I am doing. In answer I would say a) that I cant see how variations in the cellular life-cycle, body weight or organism topology of the individual body would affect the way an artist works an

Re: [Fis] Plasticity and the History of Art

2008-09-22 Thread Steven Ericsson-Zenith
Dear John, I confess that I get a little alarmed when people prepend "neuro" to everything. So perhaps you can justify exactly why you regard neural plasticity as a "tool" of explanation. What is it about plasticity that would allow explanation in the history of Art? And why would this pro