Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes from and Why by Ellen Dissanayake

Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes from and Why

Ellen Dissanayake

320 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction art history philosophy informative reflective slow-paced
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"Dissanayake argues that art was central to human evolutionary adaptation and that the aesthetic faculty is a basic psychological component of every human being. In her view, art is intimately linked to the origins of religious practices and to ce...

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