The art instinct : beauty, pleasure, & human evolution /
Denis Dutton.
- 1st U.S. ed.
- New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2009.
- 278 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-268) and index.
Introduction -- Landscape and longing -- Art and human nature -- What is art? -- "But they don't have our concept of art" -- Art and natural selection -- The uses of fiction -- Art and human self-domestication -- Intention, forgery, Dada : three aesthetic problems -- The contingency of aesthetic values -- Greatness in the arts.