Homo aestheticus : where art comes from and why /
"Dissanayake argues that art was central to human evolutionary adaptation and that the aesthetic faculty is a basic psychological component of every human being. In her view, art is intimately linked to the origins of religious practices and to ceremonies of birth, death, transition, and transc...
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
1995.
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| Edition: | First University of Washington Press edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Why Species-Centrism?
- 2. Biology and art: The implications of feeling good
- 3. The core of art: Making special
- 4. Dromena, or "Things done": Reconciling culture and nature
- 5. The arts as means of enhancement
- 6. "Empathy theory" reconsidered: The psychobiology of aesthetic responses
- 7. Does writing erase art?