Inner Vision: an Exploration of Art and the Brain, by Semir Zeki, Oxford University Press, UK
This book by far, is one of the most succinct descriptions of a theory in neuroscience. It makes anything but a valid point regarding the birth of all creativity and the motivating factors in various instances, which are captured by Zeiki in his narration of actual examples from real life, as proofs for this theory of inner vision.
What makes the most impact is the term, “Active seeing”. This is indeed the crux, or the fundamental element of all that might be uncommon and different than the main stream, and thus is rendered as original and creative and unconventional - basically speaking to the existence of brain plasticity and the extent to which the inner vision can spread and thereby allow suspension outside the realm of the limits of the naked vision.
The abstract, the meta physical, and rightfully the back bone of it all, the biological aspects of such vision makes it possible for humans to experiment and rationalize innovation in various fields of arts, to continually improve or change the standards of relevance in scientific inquiry.
In neural and social living of humans as we know it, this active seeing ensures aesthetics as well as original creativity.
The book is very well researched and presents with thought provoking concepts in neural science as well as appreciation for the arts.
Dushi