The seductions of Darwin : art, evolution, neuroscience
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 27538982
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press
- ISBN
- 9780271077420
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The book addresses its subject – art’s presumed relationships with the biological sciences – in a wide-ranging and sustained manner. Art history’s intersection with neuroscience and Darwinism is tackled in successive chapters on models of artistic development, theories of aesthetic response, and ideas about brain processes underlying creative work, which together cover the field comprehensively. Currently dominant views on these matters, from writers and philosophers of the 19th-21st centuries, are rigorously rebutted in favour of the position that engagement with art can never be encapsulated in notions of scientific knowledge and depends on wider considerations.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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