Books by Amy Ione

Neuroscience And Art: The Neurocultural Landscape

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Publisher: Springer Cham
Hardcover ISBN978-3-031-62335-6
Softcover ISBN978-3-031-62338-7
eBook ISBN978-3-031-62336-3
Series ISSN 2731-4464
Neurocultural Health and Wellbeing series
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62336-3

This book is focused on how understanding ourselves as humans is incomplete without considering both biological and cultural aspects. Using the neurocultural perspective, the book explores how everything in the world is filtered back and forth through the brain and culture. The thrust of the book, therefore, is to explore the power of art in creating a bridge between cultural and neuroscientific lines of inquiry. Looking at both clinical and non-clinical populations, the text examines historical foundations, distinguishes congenital/developmental conditions from those that are acquired, and emphasizes how the brain constructs our sensory experiences.

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“So, it is refreshing—and encouraging for those committed to genuine art–science integration—to find a book with the title Neuroscience and Art that treats art as a deeply complex human activity while, at the same time, harnessing science in its broadest sense as a mode of inquiry that can reveal rather than obscure that complexity.”

Robert Pepperell,  Leonardo Reviews

Art and the Brain coverIone, Amy. Art and the Brain: Plasticity, Embodiment, and the Unclosed Circle (Consciousness, Literature and the Arts). Rodopi Bv Editions, 2016. ISBN: 9789004322981.

Ione offers a profound assessment of our ever-evolving view of the biological brain as it pertains to embodied human experience.

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Postscript

Dr. Frank W. Stahnisch, a historian of medicine and neuroscience, reviewed Art and the Brain: Plasticity, Embodiment, and the Unclosed Circle (Brill, 2016) in a 2017 issue for the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. He wrote:

The book …includes stimulating considerations about individual perspectives on human memory and the imagination, as these originated from modern neurological representations in cortical physiology, experimental psychology, and evolutionary perspectives on brain development. The strength of “Art and the Brain” certainly lies in intriguing theoretical discussions of framing structures and visual foundations through the deep historical contexts of the neurosciences. Furthermore, Ione’s personal experiences as an active artist offer many reinterpretations of the artistic principles at work during different historical neurological media representations within the multilayered discussions presented in this volume. [Full review here]

Reviews:  Leonardo Reviews   / Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

Book cover. Innovation and Visualization: Trajectories, Strategies, and MythsIone, Amy. Innovation and Visualization: Trajectories, Strategies, and Myths (Consciousness, Literature and the Arts 1). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. ISBN: 9042016752. Signed by author on title page. Unmarked text. Index. Bibliography. 271pp. Very Good. Paperback. (#24148) $32.00

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The first in detail account that relates the development of visual images to innovations in art, communication, scientific research, and technological advance.

In a 2005 review of Innovation and Visualization: Trajectories, Strategies, and Myths, John Danvers wrote:

“It is this kind of historical insight and connectivity which makes Innovation and Visualization such a stimulating text to read. With its combination of scholarship and lucidity, fascinating information and provocative argument, this lively and intelligent book will be welcomed by the academic community and by many general readers, who will enjoy Ione’s eloquent cross-fertilisation of ideas and her healthy disregard for disciplinary boundaries.” [Full review here]

Ione, Amy. Nature Exposed to Our Method of Questioning. Berkeley, California, U.S.A.: Diatrope Press, 2002. ISBN: 097253301X. Unmarked text. Index. Bibliographic references.264pp. Index. References. Very Good. Paperback. (#24418) $14.00

Nature Exposed to our Method of Questioning explores how we create our cultural assumptions about nature, culture and ourselves. >> more

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Studio Ione coverIone, Amy.  Studio Ione 2003. The Diatrope Press, 2003. ISBN: 0972533028.

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A painter for over twenty-five years, Amy Ione’s extraordinary work has been exhibited internationally, commissioned by the City of San Francisco, and is included in public and private collections. In addition, Ione is well known as a writer on the relationships on art, science and technology.

TjotjokTjotjok. Diatrope Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780972533003

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A collection of 86 poems by Jerry Bass, enhanced by Amy Ione’s original artwork.