Henrik Hogh-Olesen

The Aesthetic Animal

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Produktbeschreibung

The Aesthetic Animal answers the ultimate questions of why we adorn ourselves, embellish our things and surroundings, and produce art, music, song, dance and fiction. It is written in a lively and entertaining tone, with beautiful color illustrations. This must-read presents an original and comprehensive synthesis of the empirical field, synthesizing data from archeology, cave art, anthropology, biology, evolutionary psychology andneuro-aesthetics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780190927929
• ISBN-10: 0190927925
• Artikelnr.: 53447437

Autorenporträt

Henrik Hogh-Olesen is Professor of Social & Personality Psychology at the Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark. He has published 13 academic books and more than 100 articles, published works of fiction and drama, is an expert on behavioral & evolutionary psychology, and has studied humans, apes, and monkeys in naturalistic and experimental settings.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Introduction: The Aesthetic Impulse
* Chapter 1: An Animal in Search of Stimulation, for Pleasure and Need
- Two Stories on the Forces that Drive Us Towards Art and Aesthetics
* Chapter 2: The First Humans and the First Art
* Chapter 3: What a Sexy Tale! Key Stimuli and Attraction - Aesthetics
in the Animal Kingdom
* Chapter 4: The Woman in Red and the Man with the Chrome-Plated Wheels
- Aesthetics and Key Stimuli in the Human World
* Chapter 5: The Human Peacock - Body Ornamentation and Artistic
Behaviour from Tribal Society to Modern Primitives
* Chapter 6: Who Lives Here? Decoration, Design, and Ornamentation on
Objects and Surroundings
* Chapter 7: Art and the Brain's Reward System - Brain Processes and
Neuroaesthetics
* Chapter 8: Fiction and Narrative - the Function of Symbolic
Aesthetics
* Chapter 9: Summing Up the Aesthetic Impulse - Adaptation, Cheesecake,
or...?
* Chapter 10: Opening the Doors of Aesthetics - Concluding Remarks
* References
* Notes
* Index