Aesthetic brain : how we evolved to desire beauty and enjoy art / Anjan Chatterjee.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York Oxford University Press 2014Description: xxiii, 217 pISBN:- 9780199811809
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- BEAUTY -- 1. What is this thing called beauty? -- 2. Captivating faces -- 3. The measure of facial beauty -- 4. The body beautiful -- 5. How the brain works -- 6. Brains behind beauty -- 7. Evolving beauty -- 8. Landscapes -- 9. Numbering beauty -- 10. The illogic of beauty -- PLEASURE -- 1. What is this thing called pleasure? -- 2. Food -- 3. Sex -- 4. Money -- 5. Liking, wanting, learning -- 6. The logic of pleasure -- ART -- 1. What is this thing called art? -- 2. Art: Biology and culture -- 3. Descriptive science of the arts -- 4. Experimental science of the arts -- 5. Conceptual art -- 6. The inception of art -- 7. Messy minds -- 8. Evolving art -- 9. Art: A tail or a song? -- 10. The serendipity of art.
"The Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey addressing fundamental questions about aesthetics and art. Using neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Chatterjee shows how beauty, pleasure, and art are grounded biologically, and offers explanations for why beauty, pleasure, and art exist at all"--
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