The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution

New York: Oxford University Press (2009)
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The need to create art is found in every human society, manifest in many different ways across many different cultures. Is this universal need rooted in our evolutionary past? The Art Instinct reveals that it is, combining evolutionary psychology with aesthetics to shed new light on fascinating questions about the nature of art.

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BH39.D84 2009

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1608190552   9780199580736   9780199539420   0199580731   1596914017   9781608190553   0199539421   9781596914018
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