Michael Pearce is the author of the recent Art in the Age of Emergence, for which I wrote this blurb:
“Michael Pearce is that rare phenomenon — a practicing artist who knows art from the inside and an intellectual versed in what the cognitive sciences teach us about why we make art. This book — part personal meditation, part philosophical exploration, and part scientific survey — is rewarding reading.” Stephen R. C. Hicks, Professor of Philosophy, Rockford University, Illinois USA.
Pearce is a British-born, California-based painter and professor of art.
As an introduction to his thought, here is Professor Pearce’s keynote speech entitled “Kitsch and Emergence”.
