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The Artful Species release announcement
The Artful Species will be available from OUP UK in November. Don’t forget to download the list of accompanying URLs from this site.
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Introducing The Artful Species
This is to introduce myself and my newly published book, The Artful Species: Aesthetics, Art, and Evolution. My academic training was in philosophy, musicology, and ethnomusicology, beginning in...
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Art and Human Evolution
The following was published on the OUP authors’ blog on November 23, 2012. Art and human evolution Very young children take to painting, singing, dancing, storytelling, and role-playing with scarcely...
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See The Artful Species put to the p. 99 test.
The Page 99 Test “Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.” –Ford Madox Ford The following was published on the page 99 blog at...
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The Artful Species compared to The Age of Insight
Several people have asked me how I would compare my book, The Artful Species, with Eric R. Kandel’s The age of insight: the quest to understand the unconscious in art, mind, and brain: from Vienna 1900...
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The Artful Species roasted!
There was a July 2013 panel on The Artful Species at the International Association of Aesthetics meeting in Krakow, Poland. The panel was organized by Jerzy Luty and included Wilfried Van Damme (art...
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Why do we make art?
Island Magazine (No. 134) has recently published mini-essays on Why do we make art? And why do we seek out art made by others (in museums and galleries, reading fiction, listening to music, and so on)?...
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Who painted the Ice Age caves of Europe?
In the period from 35 to 11 thousand years ago, humans painted, engraved and drew in caves, especially in the southwest regions of France. Scores of caves are decorated. Above all else, animals are...
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Paperback and three amazing archaeological finds
The main purpose of this post is simply to announce publication of the softback version of The Artful Species, ISBN 978-0-19-870963-3. The book is available via Amazon for US$26.15, at Book...
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