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The aesthetic brain : how we evolved to desire beauty and enjoy art / Anjan Chatterjee.
Van Pelt Library BH301.P78 C45 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chatterjee, Anjan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics--Psychological aspects.
- Aesthetics.
- Genetic psychology.
- Brain--Evolution.
- Brain.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 217 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- Part one Beauty
- What is this thing called beauty?
- Captivating faces
- The measure of facial beauty
- The body beautiful
- How the brain works
- Brains behind beauty
- Evolving beauty
- Beautiful landscapes
- Numbering beauty
- The illogic of beauty.
- Part two Pleasure
- What is this thing called pleasure?
- Food
- Sex
- Money
- Liking, wanting, learning
- The logic of pleasure.
- Part three Art
- What is this thing called art?
- Art: Biology and culture
- Descriptive science of the arts
- Experimental science of the arts
- Conceptual art
- The roots of art
- Evolving minds
- Evolving art
- Art: A tail or a song?
- The serendipity of art.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographic references (pages 191-206) and index.
- ISBN:
- 019026201X
- 9780190262013 (paperback)
- 9780199811809
- 0199811806
- OCLC:
- 905518178
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