Title:
The art instinct : beauty, pleasure, & human evolution
Author:
Dutton, Denis.
ISBN:
9781608190553
Personal Author:
Edition:
Bloomsbury Press paperback ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2010, c2009.
Physical Description:
282 pages ; 21 cm
General Note:
Reprint of the first U.S. ed., with new afterword by the author.
Originally published (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009) with 4-page section of color plates.
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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