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Darwinian Arts and Beauty
Amanda Limongi
Universal Signatures 1. Expertise2. Non-utilitarian Pleasure3. Style4. Criticism5. Imitation6. Special Focus7. Imagination
Dutton, 2000
Art as an Adaptation• Cross-Cultural Existence• Ancestry• Young Children• Sources of Pleasure• Costly
Art’s Adaptive Function?
• Cognition• Propaganda• Sexual Display• Sociality• Stress Reduction/Coping
Art & Natural Selection
• Sociality• Improvement of Skills• Appreciation of Skills
Art & Sexual Selection• Display Hypothesis• Costly Signaling• Status and Hierarchy• “Artistic Eye”
Pinker: Art as an Adaptive By-Product
1. Hunger for Status2. Aesthetic Pleasure3. Ability to Design Artifacts
Special Case: Fiction• “To instruct and to delight”• Four main themes:
1. Love2. Sex3. Personal Threat4. Threat to Kin
Evolved Aesthetics• Komar and Melamid – “America’s Most Wanted”
Evolved Aesthetics
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