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Description:David Walsh, Steven Pinker, Brian Boyd, Geoffrey Miller, Mark A. Changizi Museum of Old and New Art, 2016 - Art - 469 pages Art has a basis in biology. It is possibly adaptive, something that helped you survive and to procreate, and to pass your genes into future generations. Yes, art is also cultural, profoundly so; we're not saying the cultural is not important, simply that it has been made out to be the only way of looking at art. Why we keep making and looking art? How does it work for the art maker and the art viewer, in a deep, biological sense? Here is where our guest curators come Steven Pinker, Geoffrey Miller, Brian Boyd, and Mark Changizi. Four bio-cultural scientist-philosophers working at the forefront, the cutting edge are asking the biggest and most exciting questions about the origin of art. The substantial publication accompanying this exhibition includes each guest curators' illustrated thesis on why we make art, gorgeous illustrations of the exhibited works, and a foreword by David Walsh about why MONA is so interested in looking at art through a scientific prism.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with On the origin of art. To get started finding On the origin of art, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 489

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania

Release: 2016

ISBN: 0992419298

Description: David Walsh, Steven Pinker, Brian Boyd, Geoffrey Miller, Mark A. Changizi Museum of Old and New Art, 2016 - Art - 469 pages Art has a basis in biology. It is possibly adaptive, something that helped you survive and to procreate, and to pass your genes into future generations. Yes, art is also cultural, profoundly so; we're not saying the cultural is not important, simply that it has been made out to be the only way of looking at art. Why we keep making and looking art? How does it work for the art maker and the art viewer, in a deep, biological sense? Here is where our guest curators come Steven Pinker, Geoffrey Miller, Brian Boyd, and Mark Changizi. Four bio-cultural scientist-philosophers working at the forefront, the cutting edge are asking the biggest and most exciting questions about the origin of art. The substantial publication accompanying this exhibition includes each guest curators' illustrated thesis on why we make art, gorgeous illustrations of the exhibited works, and a foreword by David Walsh about why MONA is so interested in looking at art through a scientific prism.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with On the origin of art. To get started finding On the origin of art, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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