Aesthetics and Evolution
Starting from the assumption that art, being a pervasive human behaviour across time and space, must have an evolutionary adaptive purpose, the Author claims in this paper that art making has evolved as a behaviour that serves to bind individuals together into cooperative groups. In more detail, t...
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Firenze University Press
2013-12-01
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| author | Nancy Aiken |
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| description | Starting from the assumption that art, being a pervasive human behaviour across time and space, must have an evolutionary adaptive purpose, the Author claims in this paper that art making has evolved as a behaviour that serves to bind individuals together into cooperative groups. In more detail, the Author demonstrates here the adaptive value of art behaviour by showing how art can evoke fear and how it can evoke pleasure. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-961386d4e5ad4168be20c9558a36583b2022-12-21T19:01:47ZengFirenze University PressAisthesis2035-84662013-12-0162617310.13128/Aisthesis-1376911682Aesthetics and EvolutionNancy AikenStarting from the assumption that art, being a pervasive human behaviour across time and space, must have an evolutionary adaptive purpose, the Author claims in this paper that art making has evolved as a behaviour that serves to bind individuals together into cooperative groups. In more detail, the Author demonstrates here the adaptive value of art behaviour by showing how art can evoke fear and how it can evoke pleasure.http://www.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/13769evolutionary aestheticsorigin of artpleasurecooperative behaviouradaptation |
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| title | Aesthetics and Evolution |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Aesthetics and Evolution |
| title_short | Aesthetics and Evolution |
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| topic | evolutionary aesthetics origin of art pleasure cooperative behaviour adaptation |
| url | http://www.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/13769 |
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