Homo Aestheticus Where Art Comes from and Why

Name: Homo Aestheticus Where Art Comes from and Why
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ISBN: 9780029078853

ISBN-10: 0029078857

ISBN-13: 9780029078853

Edition: 1992

Authors: Ellen Dissanayake

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The controversy about the public funding of the arts in the USA has sparked off afresh the debate about the nature and function of art. This book argues that art is an essential human activity, but that this has been obscured in modern society.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Free Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 300
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Why Species-Centrism?


Biology and Art: The Implications of Feeling Good


The Core of Art: Making Special


Dromena or "Things Done": Reconciling Culture and Nature


The Arts as Means of Enhancement


"Empathy Theory" Reconsidered: The Psychobiology of Aesthetic Responses


Does Writing Erase Art?


Notes


References


Index of names


Index of subjects