Art Instinct Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution

Name: Art Instinct Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution
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ISBN: 9781596914018

ISBN-10: 1596914017

ISBN-13: 9781596914018

Edition: 2009

Authors: Denis Dutton

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In a groundbreaking new book that does for art what Stephen Pinker’sThe Language Instinctdid for linguistics, Denis Dutton overturns a century of art theory and criticism and revolutionizes our understanding of the arts. The Art Instinctcombines two fascinating and contentious disciplines—art and evolutionary science—in a provocative new work that will change forever the way we think about the arts, from painting to literature to movies to pottery. 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…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication date: 12/23/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



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


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index