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Ellen Dissanayake

Author of Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why

5 Works 261 Members

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Ellen Dissanayake is the author of Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why and What Is Art For?

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Works by Ellen Dissanayake

Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why (1992) 120 copies

What Is Art For? (1988) 87 copies

Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began (2000) 39 copies

Early Rock Art of the American West: The Geometric Enigma (2018) 14 copies

"The Pleasure and Meaning of Making" 1 copy

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aesthetics (18) anthropology (13) Anthropology of Art (2) art (42) art appreciation (2) art history (5) art origins (3) art theory (2) cultural evolution (3) early man (2) essays (4) evolution (6) Evolutionary Aesthetics (2) Goodreads Imports (2) history (5) IRAS (2) JRP-Peachtree (2) Maesthetics (3) missing (2) non-fiction (5) PhilAesthetics (3) philosophy (6) philosophy of art (2) photography (2) psychology (2) signed (4) sony-or-android (2) theory (4) to-read (9) university office (2)

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