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The art instinct: beauty, pleasure, & human evolution
The art instinct: beauty, pleasure, & human evolution
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Dutton, Denis
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Bloomsbury Press
Publication Date
2009
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English
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
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Table of Contents
From the Book - 1st U.S. ed.
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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Aesthetics
Art
Art -- Philosophy
Evolution (Biology)
Instinct
Philosophy
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ISBN
9781596914018
9781608190553
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