The Aesthetic Brain
Subtitle: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc; Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780199811809
Description: "The Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey addressing fundamental questions about aesthetics and art. Using neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Chatterjee shows how beauty, pleasure, and art are grounded biologically, and offers explanations for why beauty, pleasure, and art exist at all"--