ARTIST? the Hypothesis of Bodiness. a New Approach to Understanding the Artist and Art

'Artist?' offers familiar, surprising and revolutionary insights in the complex self of the artist and the experience offered by works of art, arguing that the biological processes involved in creating and in encountering the artwork play a more important role than till now has been acknowledged. Ilgen questions innovations and undirectional progress in art, and discusses the various struggles in art including insecurity and medicrity, emphasizing the natural importance of imperfection. He makes a strong point criticising the cliche about the experience of art being only a cerebral, or only a retinal perception, and promotes the concept of whole mind/body perception.