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Art and Intimacy How the Arts Began by Ellen Dissanayake
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- Subject
- Art
- ISBN
- 9780295979113
- Book Title
- Art and Intimacy : How the Arts Began
- Book Series
- A Mclellan Book Ser.
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Social Science
- Topic
- Archaeology, General
- Item Width
- 6.2 in
- Item Weight
- 20.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 268 Pages
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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.
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Publisher
University of Washington Press
ISBN-10
0295979119
ISBN-13
9780295979113
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1626988
Product Key Features
Book Title
Art and Intimacy : How the Arts Began
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Archaeology, General
Publication Year
2000
Book Series
A Mclellan Book Ser.
Type
Textbook
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Family & Relationships, Social Science
Number of Pages
268 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Nx180.S6d58 2000
Table of Content
ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: Love and Art1. Mutuality2. Belonging3. Finding and Making Meaning4. ìHands-onî Competence5. Elaborating6. Taking the Arts SeriouslyAppendix: Toward a Naturalistic AestheticsNotesReferences Cited
Copyright Date
2000
Target Audience
College Audience
Lccn
99-037639
Dewey Decimal
701/.15
Dewey Edition
21
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