The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, & Human Evolution
Bloomsbury Press (2009)
| Abstract | Introduction -- Landscape and longing -- Art and human nature -- What is art? -- But they don't have our concept of art -- Art and natural selection -- The uses of fiction -- Art and human self-domestication -- Intention, forgery, dada : three aesthetic problems -- The contingency of aesthetic values -- Greatness in the arts. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Aesthetics Art Philosophy Evolution (Biology Instinct | |||||||||
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| Call number | BH39.D84 2009 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 9781596914018 | |||||||||
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