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Ellen Dissanayake What Is Art For? (Paperback) What Is Art For?
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- Book Title
- What Is Art For?
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- ISBN-10
- 0295970170
- EAN
- 9780295970172
- ISBN
- 9780295970172
- Genre
- Society & Culture
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Item Length
- 152mm
- Title
- What Is Art For?
- Topic
- Arts & Photography
- Release Date
- 01/06/1990
- Release Year
- 1990
- Series
- What Is Art For?
- Publication Year
- 1990
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- What Is Art For?
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Subject
- Sociology
- Item Weight
- 408g
- Number of Pages
- 266 Pages
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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 notions that disregard other cultures and ignore the human species' four-million-year evolutionary history. This book offers a new and unprecedentedly comprehensive theory of the evolutionary significance of art. Art, meaning not only visual art, but music, poetic language, dance, and performance, is for the first time regarded from a biobehavioral or ethical viewpoint. It is shown to be a biological necessity in human existence and fundamental characteristic of the human species. In this provocative study, Ellen Dissanayake examines art along with play and ritual as human behaviors that make special, and proposes that making special is an inherited tendency as intrinsic to the human species as speech and toolmaking. She claims that the arts evolved as means of making socially important activities memorable and pleasurable, and thus have been essential to human survival. Avoiding simplism and reductionism, this original synthetic approach permits a fresh look at old questions about the origins, nature, purpose, and value of art. It crosses disciplinary boundaries and integrates a number of divers fields: human ethology; evolutionary biology; the psychology and philosophy of art; physical and cultural anthropology; primitive and prehistoric art; Western cultural history; and children's art. The final chapter, From Tradition to Aestheticism, explores some of the ways in which modern Western society has diverged from other societies--particularly the type of society in which human beings evolved--and considers the effects of the aberrance on our art and our attitudes toward art. This book is addressed to readers who have a concerned interest in the arts or in human nature and the state of modern society.
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University of Washington Press
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What Is Art For?
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Paperback
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English
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Sociology
Publication Year
1990
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Textbook
Number of Pages
266 Pages
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408g
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