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The aesthetic brain : how we evolved to desire beauty and enjoy art
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The aesthetic brain : how we evolved to desire beauty and enjoy art

Anjan Chatterjee

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PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
BEAUTY
1. What is this thing called beauty?
2. Captivating faces
3. The measure of facial beauty
4. The body beautiful
5. How the brain works
6. Brains behind beauty
7. Evolving beauty
8. Landscapes
9. Numbering beauty
10. The illogic of beauty
PLEASURE
1. What is this thing called pleasure?
2. Food
3. Sex
4. Money
5. Liking, wanting, learning
6. The logic of pleasure
ART
1. What is this thing called art?
2. Art: Biology and culture
3. Descriptive science of the arts
4. Experimental science of the arts
5. Conceptual art
6. The inception of art
7. Messy minds
8. Evolving art
9. Art: A tail or a song?
10. The serendipity of art.

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The aesthetic brain : how we evolved to desire beauty and enjoy art by Anjan Chatterjee. ISBN 9780199811809. Published by Oxford University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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