CAN ART THEORY BE SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN?
Whose Truth, Whose Creativity? is an expert analysis of neuro-science and art theory — this new book delves into the source of all art and creativity, from ancient cave paintings to contemporary art. It explores why postmodern art theory has had a damaging impact on the art world and explains how neuroscience can prove this. Does talent spring from the unconscious mind as Paul Cézanne believed? Or does it, as Marcel Duchamp theorized, come from conceptual thinking at the conscious level?
Cognitive neuroscientific psychology, a fairly new field of psychology, explains a natural, mental basis for human creativity. This book exposes the many falsehoods and distortions of postmodern reasoning to demonstrate how, by following this disturbing, unnatural direction for decades, the art establishment has been responsible for initiating an era of damaging cultural chaos. regional competitions and exhibiting his work throughout the Baltimore / Washington D.C. region, he has lectured and taught collage and his discovery, CUVISM, at the University of Maryland’s Community College in Columbia, Maryland. Sakkal has served as a Peace Corps Volunteer architect from 1966 to 1968 and an Associate Peace Corps Director from 1968 to 1971, both in Iran. He has a Bachelor’s in Architecture from the School of Architecture at Texas A&M University and a Master’s in City Planning from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.
His first article, The Problem with Postmodern Art Theory, was published by the American Arts Quarterly Journal in the summer of 2009. Examining the validity of the theories of contemporary art’s Postmodern era resulted in his first book, CUVISM (Cognitive Unconscious Visual Creativity): The Human Creative Response, published in 2015.