Survival of the beautiful
Subtitle: art, science, and evolution
By: David Rothenberg
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781408828823; 9781408830567
Subjects: Evolution (Biology); Art and science; Nature (Aesthetics); Sexual selection in animals
Description: Survival of the Beautiful is a revolutionary new examination of the interplay of beauty, art, and culture in evolution. Taking inspiration from Darwin's observation that animals have a natural aesthetic sense, philosopher and musician David Rothenberg probes why animals, humans included, have innate appreciation for beauty, and why nature is, indeed, beautiful.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Come up and see my bower; title: Only the most fascinating survive; title: It could be anything : male and female animals in their artworlds; title: Pollock In the forest ; abstraction as measure of the real; title: Hiding ingenuity, or Think like a squid : camouflage between art and nature; title: Creative experiments : when science learns from art; title: The human, the elephant, and art out of relationship; title: The brain In the cave : art at the edge of human certainty; title: One culture of beauty, between art and science.