The art instinct : beauty, pleasure, and human evolution /
Denis Dutton.
- New York : Bloomsbury press , 2009.
- 282 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-271) and index.
Introduction -- Landscape and longing -- Art and human nature -- What is art? --'But they don't have our concept of art' -- Art and natural selection -- The uses of fiction -- Art and human self-domestication -- Intention, forgery, Dada : three aesthetic problems -- The contingency of aesthetic values -- Greatness in the arts.