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Art and Intimacy (häftad, eng)

University of Washington Press

Art and Intimacy (häftad, eng)

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To Ellen Dissanayake, the arts are biologically evolved propensities of human nature: their fundamental features helped early humans adapt to their environment and reproduce themselves successfully over generations. In Art and Intimacy she argues for the joint evolutionary origin of art and intimacy, what we commonly call love.

It all begins with the human trait of birthing immature and helpless infants.

To ensure that mothers find their demanding babies worth caring for, humans evolved to be lovable and to attune themselves to others from the moment of birth. The ways in which mother and infant respond to each other are rhythmically patterned vocalizations and exaggerated face and body movements that Dissanayake calls rhythms and sensory modes.

Rhythms and modes also give rise to the arts.

Because humans are born predisposed to respond to and use rhythmic-modal signals, societies everywhere have elaborated them further as music, mime, dance, and display, in rituals which instill and reinforce valued cultural beliefs. Just as rhythms and modes coordinate and unify the mother-infant pair, in ceremonies they coordinate and unify members of a group.

Today we humans live in environments very different from those of our ancestors.

They used ceremonies (the arts) to address matters of serious concern, such as health, prosperity, and fecundity, that affected their survival. Now we tend to dismiss the arts, to see them as superfluous, only for an elite. But if we are biologically predisposed to participate in artlike behavior, then we actually need the arts.

Even -- or perhaps especially -- in our fast-paced, sophisticated modern lives, the arts encourage us to show that we care about important things.




Format Häftad Omfång 268 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag University of Washington Press Utgivningsdatum 2012-04-11 ISBN 9780295991962

Artikel.nr.

e88a948b-4afd-5547-853c-7237176b0dbd

Egenskaper

Slag

Konst & design

Språkversion

Engelska

Antal sidor

268 sidor

Utgivare

University of Washington Press

Släpp datum

01/06/2012

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

9780295991962

Vikt & dimension

Bredd

151,9 mm

Djup

20,1 mm

Höjd

228,1 mm

University of Washington Press

Art and Intimacy (häftad, eng)

399 kr

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