The aesthetic animal /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the aesthetic impulse
- An animal in search of stimulation, for pleasure and need : two stories on the forces that drive us towards art and aesthetics
- The first humans and the first art
- What a sexy tale! key stimuli and attraction : aesthetics in the animal kingdom
- The woman in red and the man with the chrome-plated wheels : aesthetics and key stimuli in the human world
- The human peacock : body ornamentation and artistic behaviour from tribal society to modern primitives
- Who lives here? : decoration, design, and ornamentation on objects and surroundings
- Art and the brain's reward system : brain processes and neuroaesthetics
- Fiction and narrative : the function of symbolic aesthetics
- Summing up the aesthetic impulse : adaptation, cheesecake, or?
- Opening the doors of aesthetics : concluding remarks
- References
- Notes
- Index.