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  1. The aesthetic brain
    how we evolved to desire beauty and enjoy art
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford [u.a.]

    "The Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey addressing fundamental questions about aesthetics and art. Using neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Chatterjee shows how beauty, pleasure, and art are grounded biologically, and... more

    Hochschulbibliothek Ingolstadt
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München
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    Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg
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    "The Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey addressing fundamental questions about aesthetics and art. Using neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Chatterjee shows how beauty, pleasure, and art are grounded biologically, and offers explanations for why beauty, pleasure, and art exist at all"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780199811809; 0199811806; 9780190262013
    RVK Categories: CC 5680 ; CC 6900
    Subjects: Aesthetics / Psychological aspects; Genetic psychology; Brain / Evolution; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology; Kunst; Psychologie; Ästhetik; Ästhetische Wahrnehmung; Neuropsychologie; Evolutionspsychologie
    Scope: XXIII, 217 S., 23 cm
    Notes:

    Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Machine generated contents note: -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- BEAUTY -- 1. What is this thing called beauty? -- 2. Captivating faces -- 3. The measure of facial beauty -- 4. The body beautiful -- 5. How the brain works -- 6. Brains behind beauty -- 7. Evolving beauty -- 8. Landscapes -- 9. Numbering beauty -- 10. The illogic of beauty -- PLEASURE -- 1. What is this thing called pleasure? -- 2. Food -- 3. Sex -- 4. Money -- 5. Liking, wanting, learning -- 6. The logic of pleasure -- ART -- 1. What is this thing called art? -- 2. Art: Biology and culture -- 3. Descriptive science of the arts -- 4. Experimental science of the arts -- 5. Conceptual art -- 6. The inception of art -- 7. Messy minds -- 8. Evolving art -- 9. Art: A tail or a song? -- 10. The serendipity of art

  2. The aesthetic brain
    how we evolved to desire beauty and enjoy art
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford [u.a.]

    "The Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey addressing fundamental questions about aesthetics and art. Using neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Chatterjee shows how beauty, pleasure, and art are grounded biologically, and... more

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    Universität der Künste Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    "The Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey addressing fundamental questions about aesthetics and art. Using neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Chatterjee shows how beauty, pleasure, and art are grounded biologically, and offers explanations for why beauty, pleasure, and art exist at all"--

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780199811809; 0199811806; 9780190262013
    RVK Categories: CC 5680 ; CC 6900
    Subjects: Aesthetics / Psychological aspects; Genetic psychology; Brain / Evolution; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology; Kunst; Psychologie; Ästhetik; Ästhetische Wahrnehmung; Neuropsychologie; Evolutionspsychologie
    Scope: XXIII, 217 S., 23 cm
    Notes:

    Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Machine generated contents note: -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- BEAUTY -- 1. What is this thing called beauty? -- 2. Captivating faces -- 3. The measure of facial beauty -- 4. The body beautiful -- 5. How the brain works -- 6. Brains behind beauty -- 7. Evolving beauty -- 8. Landscapes -- 9. Numbering beauty -- 10. The illogic of beauty -- PLEASURE -- 1. What is this thing called pleasure? -- 2. Food -- 3. Sex -- 4. Money -- 5. Liking, wanting, learning -- 6. The logic of pleasure -- ART -- 1. What is this thing called art? -- 2. Art: Biology and culture -- 3. Descriptive science of the arts -- 4. Experimental science of the arts -- 5. Conceptual art -- 6. The inception of art -- 7. Messy minds -- 8. Evolving art -- 9. Art: A tail or a song? -- 10. The serendipity of art

  3. The aesthetic brain
    how we evolved to desire beauty and enjoy art
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York, NY

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
    Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780199316403; 0199316406; 9780199811878; 0199811873; 9780199811809; 0199811806
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    Series: EBL ebooks online
    Subjects: PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology; PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics; Aesthetics / Psychological aspects; Brain / Evolution; Genetic psychology; Psychology; Esthetics; Brain / physiology; Pleasure; Psychologie; Ästhetik; Aesthetics; Genetic psychology; Brain; Evolutionspsychologie; Neuropsychologie; Ästhetische Wahrnehmung
    Scope: 1 online resource
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    "The Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey addressing fundamental questions about aesthetics and art. Using neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Chatterjee shows how beauty, pleasure, and art are grounded biologically, and offers explanations for why beauty, pleasure, and art exist at all"--

    Machine generated contents note: -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- BEAUTY -- 1. What is this thing called beauty? -- 2. Captivating faces -- 3. The measure of facial beauty -- 4. The body beautiful -- 5. How the brain works -- 6. Brains behind beauty -- 7. Evolving beauty -- 8. Landscapes -- 9. Numbering beauty -- 10. The illogic of beauty -- PLEASURE -- 1. What is this thing called pleasure? -- 2. Food -- 3. Sex -- 4. Money -- 5. Liking, wanting, learning -- 6. The logic of pleasure -- ART -- 1. What is this thing called art? -- 2. Art: Biology and culture -- 3. Descriptive science of the arts -- 4. Experimental science of the arts -- 5. Conceptual art -- 6. The inception of art -- 7. Messy minds -- 8. Evolving art -- 9. Art: A tail or a song? -- 10. The serendipity of art

  4. The aesthetic brain
    how we evolved to desire beauty and enjoy art
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford [u.a.]

    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
    90.227.80
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    Source: Specialised Catalogue of Comparative Literature
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0199811806; 9780199811809
    Subjects: Ästhetische Wahrnehmung; Neuropsychologie; Evolutionspsychologie
    Scope: XXIII, 217 S.
    Notes:

    Literaturverz. S. 191 - 206