5/10/2023 0 Comments Shakespeare by michael wood![]() ![]() ![]() But the pictures used to persuade us of this are blocky, pixellated computer graphics, sometimes manipulated and overlaid with irrelevancies for "artistic" purposes. The thesis is that particular mental states and processes can be pinpointed to areas in the brain. ![]() For a book about imaging, the images are terrible. What lets this book down is not art but science, or rather technology. In a way, any sufficiently prolific creator might have worked - "Understanding the Mind Through the Art of Walt Disney" anyone? - but Shakespeare has both range and insight. My suspicion is that this book began as a set of photographs, and Shakespeare only arrived as an organisational device: a neat and reasonably familiar package of ruminations on the differences betwen men and women, madness, depression, physical courage, the senses, dreaming, memory, language, race, music, love and the imagination. ![]()
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