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The art instinct : beauty, pleasure, & human evolution / Denis Dutton.
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9781596914018 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1596914017 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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Dutton, Denis
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The art instinct : beauty, pleasure, & human evolution / Denis Dutton.
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Beauty, pleasure, & human evolution
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1st U.S. ed.
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New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2009.
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278 pages ; 25 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-268) and index.
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.
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Publisher's description: Human tastes in the arts, Dutton argues, are evolutionary traits, shaped by Darwinian selection. They are not, as the past century of art criticism and academic theory would have it, just socially constructed. Our love of beauty is inborn, and many aesthetic tastes are shared across remote cultures just one example is the widespread preference for landscapes with water and distant trees, like the savannas where we evolved. Using forceful logic and hard evidence, Dutton shows that we must premise art criticism on an understanding of evolution, not on abstract theory. He restores the place of beauty, pleasure, and skill as artistic values.
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Aesthetics
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Art -- Philosophy
Evolution (Biology)
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