Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why - Softcover

Dissanayake, Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0295974796 ISBN 13: 9780295974798

Verlag: University of Washington Press, 1995

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Book by Dissanayake Ellen

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Homo Aestheticus calls for a counterrevolution in our thinking about art. It is timely, provocative, and immensely valuable. * Philosophy and Literature * Homo Aestheticus offers a wealth of original and critical thinking. It will inform and irritate specialist, student, and lay reader alike. * American Anthropologist * Affirm[s] the idea that art is for life's sake, for the fulfillment of fundamental human needs, and for human survival. . . . She gives us a coherent rationale for funding broadly based arts programs. * Art Therapy * Ellen Dissanayake's book is the most forceful rejoinder I've read so far to the trivializing pessimism of postmodernist art theory. -- Kenneth Baker * San Francisco Chronicle * Dissanayake argues that art was central to human evolutionary adaptation and that the aesthetic faculty is a basic psychological component of every human being. In her view, art is intimately linked to the origins of religious practices and to ceremonies of birth, death, transition, and transcendence. Drawing on her years in Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and Papua New Guinea, she gives examples of painting, song, dance, and drama as behaviors that enable participants to grasp and reinforce what is important to their cognitive world. * Publishers Weekly *

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"Dissanayake argues that art was central to human evolutionary adaptation and that the aesthetic faculty is a basic psychological component of every human being. In her view, art is intimately linked to the origins of religious practices and to ceremonies of birth, death, transition, and transcendence. Drawing on her years in Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and Papua New Guinea, she gives examples of painting, song, dance, and drama as behaviors that enable participants to grasp and reinforce what is important to their cognitive world."-Publishers Weekly"Homo Aestheticus offers a wealth of original and critical thinking. It will inform and irritate specialist, student, and lay reader alike."-American AnthropologistA thoughtful, elegant, and provocative analysis of aesthetic behavior in the development of our species-one that acknowledges its roots in the work of prior thinkers while opening new vistas for those yet to come. If you're reading just one book on art anthropology this year, make it hers."-Anthropology and Humanism

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• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0295974796
• ISBN 13: 9780295974798
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320