The Artful Species Aesthetics, Art, and Evolution
ISBN: 9780199658541 | 0199658544
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 1/6/2013
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The Artful Species explores the idea that our aesthetic responses and art behaviors are connected to our evolved human nature. Our humanoid forerunners displayed aesthetic sensibilities hundreds of thousands of years ago and the art standing of prehistoric cave paintings is virtually uncontested. In Part One, Stephen Davies analyses the key concepts of the aesthetic, art, and evolution, and explores how they might be related. He considers a range of issues, including theconsideration of whether animals have aesthetic tastes and whether art is n... MORE
Introduction to Part One
1. The aesthetic
2. The nature of art
3. The theory of evolution
4. How might the aesthetic, art, and evolution be related?
Introduction to Part Two - The Aesthetic
5. Humans' aesthetic appreciation of nonhuman animals
6. Landscape aesthetics
7. The aesthetics of human beauty
Introduction to Part Three - The Arts
8. General theories of art as an adaptation and the origins of art
9. Art as a spandrel
10. Art as a technology
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Stephen Davies teaches philosophy at The University of Auckland. He writes mainly about aesthetics and the philosophy of art, and has written extensively on the definition of art, the ontological character of artworks, cross-cultural aesthetics, the expression of emotion in art, and the interpretation and evaluation of art. His books include Musical Works and Performances (Clarendon, 2001), Themes in the Philosophy of Music (OUP, 2003), The Philosophy of Art (Blackwell, 2006), Philosophical Perspectives on Art (OUP, 2007), and Musical Understandings (OUP, 2011).
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