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  1. The aesthetic brain
    how we evolved to desire beauty and enjoy art
    Author: Chatterjee, Anjan
    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

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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
    Author: Chatterjee, Anjan
    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

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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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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    Content information
    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