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The art instinct : beauty, pleasure, & human evolution / Denis Dutton

By:

Dutton, Dennis

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Bloomsbury Press , 2009.Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: 278 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

9781596914018

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

701.17 DUT

LOC classification:

BH39 .D84 2009

Contents:

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.

Summary: Challenges popular conceptions in art theory and criticism to argue that human tastes in the arts are evolutionary traits shaped by Darwinian selection as opposed to social construction, in a volume that explains the role of evolution in aesthetic preferences while calling for a practice of art criticism from an evolutionary standpoint.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	701.17 DUT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		021554

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-268) and index.

Challenges popular conceptions in art theory and criticism to argue that human tastes in the arts are evolutionary traits shaped by Darwinian selection as opposed to social construction, in a volume that explains the role of evolution in aesthetic preferences while calling for a practice of art criticism from an evolutionary standpoint.

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