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The Aesthetic Animal answers the ultimate questions of why we adorn ourselves, embellish our things and surroundings, and produce art, music, song, dance and fiction. It is written in a lively and entertaining tone, with beautiful color illustrations. This must-read presents an original and comprehensive synthesis of the empirical field, synthesizing data from archeology, cave art, anthropology, biology, evolutionary psychology andneuro-aesthetics.
Henrik Hogh-Olesen is Professor of Social & Personality Psychology at the Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark. He has published 13 academic books and more than 100 articles, published works of fiction and drama, is an expert on behavioral & evolutionary psychology, and has studied humans, apes, and monkeys in naturalistic and experimental settings.
Preface
Introduction: The Aesthetic Impulse
Chapter 1: An Animal in Search of Stimulation, for Pleasure and Need - Two Stories on the Forces that Drive Us Towards Art and Aesthetics
Chapter 2: The First Humans and the First Art
Chapter 3: What a Sexy Tale! Key Stimuli and Attraction - Aesthetics in the Animal Kingdom
Chapter 4: The Woman in Red and the Man with the Chrome-Plated Wheels - Aesthetics and Key Stimuli in the Human World
Chapter 5: The Human Peacock - Body Ornamentation and Artistic Behaviour from Tribal Society to Modern Primitives
Chapter 6: Who Lives Here? Decoration, Design, and Ornamentation on Objects and Surroundings
Chapter 7: Art and the Brain's Reward System - Brain Processes and Neuroaesthetics
Chapter 8: Fiction and Narrative - the Function of Symbolic Aesthetics
Chapter 9: Summing Up the Aesthetic Impulse - Adaptation, Cheesecake, or...?
Chapter 10: Opening the Doors of Aesthetics - Concluding Remarks
References
Notes
Index
