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8 produkter
What Is Art For?
Häftad, 1990
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
472 kr
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Every human society displays some form of behavior that can be called “art,” and in most societies other than our own the arts play an integral part in social life. Those who wish to understand art in its broadest sense, as a universal human endowment, need to go beyond modern Western elitist …
Art and Intimacy
How the Arts Began
Häftad, 2012
472 kr
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To Ellen Dissanayake, the arts are biologically evolved propensities of human nature: their fundamental features helped early humans adapt to their environment and reproduce themselves successfully over generations. In Art and Intimacy she argues for the joint evolutionary origin of art and …
Homo Aestheticus
Where Art Comes From and Why
Häftad, 1995
458 kr
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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 ceremonies of birth, death, transition, and …
Early Rock Art of the American West
The Geometric Enigma
Av Ekkehart Malotki, Ellen Dissanayake
Häftad, 2018
627 kr
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A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEThe earliest rock art - in the Americas as elsewhere - is geometric or abstract. Until Early Rock Art in the American West, however, no book-length study has been devoted to the deep antiquity and amazing range of geometrics and the fascinating questions that …
Early Rock Art of the American West
The Geometric Enigma
Av Ellen Dissanayake, Ekkehart Malotki
E-bok, 2018
697 kr
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A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE The earliest rock art - in the Americas as elsewhere - is geometric or abstract. Until Early Rock Art in the American West , however, no book-length study has been devoted to the deep antiquity and amazing range of geometrics and the fascinating questions that …
Art and Intimacy
How the Arts Began
E-bok, 2015
535 kr
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To Ellen Dissanayake, the arts are biologically evolved propensities of human nature: their fundamental features helped early humans adapt to their environment and reproduce themselves successfully over generations. In Art and Intimacy she argues for the joint evolutionary origin of art and …
What Is Art For?
E-bok, 2015
520 kr
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Every human society displays some form of behavior that can be called “art,” and in most societies other than our own the arts play an integral part in social life. Those who wish to understand art in its broadest sense, as a universal human endowment, need to go beyond modern Western elitist …
Homo Aestheticus
Where Art Comes from and Why
Inbunden, 1995
1461 kr
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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 ceremonies of birth, death, transition, and …
