The art instinct : beauty, pleasure, and human evolution - Dutton, Denis (New York : Bloomsbury press, 2009)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-271) and index.
Keywords: Aesthetics; Art -- Philosophy; Evolution (Biology).; Instinct