Над 4 милиона заглавия на английски и други езици! Открийте новата си история още днес! Безплатна доставка за поръчки над 69.99€

Виж статуса на поръчката

Свържете се с нас

Homo Aestheticus

Name: Homo Aestheticus
Brand: University of Washington Press
SKU: 9780295974798
Price: 33.37 EUR
Availability: InStock

Where Art Comes From and Why

Автор: Ellen Dissanayake

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: University of Washington Press

Наличност: Външен склад в ограничено количество

Изпращаме след 11-15 дни

33.37 € 65.26 лв

All human societies throughout history have given a special place to the arts. Even nomadic peoples...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Ellen Dissanayake

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

1995

страници

320

EAN

9780295974798

ISBN

0295974796

Enbook ID

04874244

Издател

University of Washington Press

Теглоt

454

Размери

154 x 228 x 19

Пълно описание

All human societies throughout history have given a special place to the arts. Even nomadic peoples who own scarcely any material possessions embellish what they do own, decorate their bodies, and celebrate special occasions with music, song, and dance. A fundamentally human appetite or need is being expressed--and met--by artistic activity. As Ellen Dissanayake argues in this stimulating and intellectually far-ranging book, only by discovering the natural origins of this human need of art will we truly know what art is, what it means, and what its future might be. Describing visual display, poetic language, song and dance, music, and dramatic performance as ways by which humans have universally, necessarily, and immemorially shaped and enhanced the things they care about, Dissanayake shows that aesthetic perception is not something that we learn or acquire for its own sake but is inherent in the reconciliation of culture and nature that has marked our evolution as humans. What "artists" do is an intensification and exaggeration of what "ordinary people" do, naturally and with enjoyment--as is evident in premodern societies, where artmaking is universally practiced. Dissanayake insists that aesthetic experience cannot be properly understood apart from the psychobiology of sense, feeling, and cognition--the ways we spontaneously and commonly think and behave. If homo aestheticus seems unrecognizable in today's modern and postmodern societies, it is so because "art" has been falsely set apart from life, while the reductive imperatives of an acquisitive and efficiency-oriented culture require us to ignore or devalue the aesthetic part of our nature. Dissanayake's original and provocativeapproach will stimulate new thinking in the current controversies regarding multi-cultural curricula and the role of art in education. Her ideas also have relevance to contemporary art and social theory and will be of interest to all who care strongly about the arts and their plac

Най-често търсени

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Продукти

Продукти

Най-често търсени

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Продукти

Продукти

Homo Aestheticus

Where Art Comes From and Why

Информация за книгата

Пълно описание

Може също да ви хареса

Клиенти, които купиха тази книга, купиха също