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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Ellen DissanayakePublisher: University of Washington Press Imprint: University of Washington Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.558kg ISBN: 9780295995786ISBN 10: 0295995785 Pages: 268 Publication Date: 03 August 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Love and Art Mutuality Belonging Finding and Making Meaning ""Hands-on"" Competence Elaborating Taking the Arts Seriously Appendix: Toward a Naturalistic Aesthetics Notes References Cited Index of Names Index of Subjects"ReviewsEllen Dissanayake gives us a deep and even moving investigation of art's capacity to touch every corner of our emotional lives. -- Denis Dutton Washington Post Dissanayake offers an account of the origin of the arts and a cleverly argued case for a naturalist aesthetics. The premise is that 'the biological phenomena of love is originally manifested-expressed and exchanged-by means of emotionally meaningful rhythms and modes that are jointly created and sustained by mothers and their infants in ritualized, evolved interaction,' and that 'from these rudimentary and unlikely beginnings grow adult expressions of love, both sexual and generally affirmative, and the arts.'..The work draws on disciplines ranging from cultural anthropology and art history to evolutionary psychology and cognitive archaeology, with contributions from infant and developmental psychology and neuroscience..Well researched and interestingly written. Choice Ellen Dissanayake gives us a deep and even moving investigation of art's capacity to touch every corner of our emotional lives.--Denis Dutton Washington Post Author InformationEllen Dissanayake is Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington and has recently held Distinguished Visiting Professorships in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, and at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. She has lectured and taught in a variety of settings, including the New School for Social Research in New York City, the National Arts School in Papua New Guinea, and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. She is the author of Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and What Is Art For? Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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