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The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art

The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art


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The Aesthetic Brain takes readers on an exciting journey through the world of beauty, pleasure, and art. Using the latest advances in neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Anjan Chatterjee investigates how an aesthetic sense is etched into our minds, and explains why artistic concerns feature centrally in our lives. Along the way, Chatterjee addresses such fundamental questions as: What is beauty? Is it universal? How is beauty related to pleasure? What is art? Should art be beautiful? Do we have an instinct for art? Early on, Chatterjee probes the reasons why we find people, places, and even numbers beautiful, highlighting the important relationship between beauty and pleasure. Examining our pleasures allows him to reveal why we enjoy things like food, sex, and money, and how these rewards relate to our aesthetic encounters. Chatterjee's detailed discussion of beauty and pleasure equips readers to confront essential questions about the nature of art, the problems of defining it, and the challenges of interpreting its modern, non-traditional forms. Replete with facts, anecdotes, and analogies, this lively empirical guide to aesthetics offers scientific answers to fundamental questions without deflating the intrinsic wonders of beauty and art in an affordable paperback edition.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
Anjan Chatterjee, M.D., is Professor of Neurology, and a member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and the Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves on the editorial boards of Empirical Studies of the Arts; Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology; Behavioural Neurology; Neuropsychology; Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience; European Neurology; The Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society; American Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience; Brain Science; and Policy Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology. In 2002, he was awarded the Norman Geschwind Prize in Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology by the American Academy of Neurology. He is President of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics and President of the Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology Society. His neurology practice focuses on patients with cognitive disorders while his research involves spatial cognition, language, ethics, and aesthetics. He has published more than 125 peer-reviewed papers and is the coeditor of Neuroethics in Practice: Medicine, Mind, and Society.

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"Chatterjee is a neuroscientist, so readers might expect a mechanistic treatise on beauty constructed from PET scans and clinical trials. But he offers no simple marriage of roses and neurons. To begin filling in the blanks left by neuroscience, he draws from anthropology, evolutionary biology, philosophy, and personal anecdotes. As Chatterjee reminds us, insight is the goal of science and art. His work succeeds by combining both toward a greater appreciation of the human experience." --Bryan Bello, Science News "Overall, The Aesthetic Brain offers an intriguing overview of the neural and historical underpinnings of beauty and art." --Scientific American "[Chatterjee] makes a compelling case that although art and beauty may seem nonessential, they epitomize our search for pleasure and meaning in life." --Scientific American Mind "[Chatterjee] succinctly outlines the areas of the brain that are active in appreciating facial and body attractiveness and the implications for the evolution of our species. He makes the case for those aspects of liking and walking that relate to art and beauty. In his cogent review of the long history of human artifact-making art, he carefully considers the many definitions of aesthetics, art, and beauty. He examines all the major definitions of these and considers how many of them are found wanting in the wide world of art as it is currently comprised." --Journal of Clinical Psychiatry


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  • ISBN-13: 9780190262013
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 213 mm
  • No of Pages: 248
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 299 gr
  • ISBN-10: 019026201X
  • Publisher Date: 24 Sep 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art
  • Width: 140 mm


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