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By:Ellen Dissanayake
Published on 1990 by University of Washington Press

In this provocative study, Ellen Dissanayake examines art along with play and ritual as human behaviors that |make special,| and proposes that making special is an inherited tendency as intrinsic to the human species as speech and toolmaking. She claims that the arts evolved as means of making socially important activities memorable and pleasurable, and thus have been essential to human survival. Avoiding simplism and reductionism, this original synthetic approach permits a fresh look at old questions about the origins, nature, purpose, and value of art. It crosses disciplinary boundaries and integrates a number of divers fields: human ethology; evolutionary biology; the psychology and philosophy of art; physical and cultural anthropology; |primitive| and prehistoric art; Western cultural history; and children's art. The final chapter, |From Tradition to Aestheticism,| explores some of the ways in which modern Western society has diverged from other societies - particularly the type of society in which human beings evolved - and considers the effects of the aberrance on our art and our attitudes toward art.|--Pub. website.

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