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Denis DuttonPublication Details
Book1st U.S. edBloomsbury Press2009Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) BH39 .D84 2009 DUE 02-28-10 New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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In a groundbreaking new book that does for art what Stephen Pinker?s The Language Instinct did for linguistics, Denis Dutton overturns a century of art theory and criticism and revolutionizes our understanding of the arts. Sure to provoke discussion in scientific circles and uproar in the art world, The Art Instinct offers radical new insights into both the nature of art and the workings of the human mind. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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
ISBN
- 9781596914018
- 1596914017
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