Dissanayake, Ellen. <br/><br/>
Art and intimacy :  how the arts began / 
Ellen Dissanayake. 
 - 1 online resource (xvii, 265 pages) :  illustrations 
<br/><br/> "A McLellan book." 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-250) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Mutuality -- Belonging -- Finding and making meaning -- Hands-on competence -- Elaborating -- Taking the arts seriously -- Appendix : toward a naturalistic aesthetics. 
<br/><br/> "Ellen Dissanayake argues for the joint evolutionary origin of art and intimacy, what we commonly call love. Because humans are born predisposed to respond to and use rhythmic-modal signals, societies everywhere have elaborated them further as music, mime, dance, and display, in rituals which instill and reinforce valued cultural beliefs. Just as rhythms and modes coordinate and unify the mother-infant pair, in ceremonies they coordinate and unify members of a group. If we are biologically predisposed to participate in art-like behavior, then we actually need the arts. Even - perhaps especially - in our fast-paced, sophisticated modern lives, the arts encourage us to show that we care about important things."--Jacket. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780295997469 029599746X 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>22573/ctvct6x73  JSTOR 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Arts and society.<br/>Intimacy (Psychology)<br/>ART--General.<br/>ART--Criticism & Theory.<br/>Arts and society.<br/>Intimacy (Psychology)<br/>�Asthetik<br/>Entwicklung<br/>Gesellschaft<br/>Intimsph�are<br/>Kunst<br/>K�unste
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NX180.S6  / D58 2000eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>701/.15