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"Ellen Dissanayake argues for the joint evolutionary origin of art and intimacy, what we commonly call love. Because humans are born predisposed to respond to and use rhythmic-modal signals, societies everywhere have elaborated them further as music, mime, dance, and display, in rituals which instill and reinforce valued cultural beliefs. Just as rhythms and modes coordinate and unify the mother-infant pair, in ceremonies they coordinate and unify members of a group.
If we are biologically predisposed to participate in art-like behavior, then we actually need the arts. Even - perhaps especially - in our fast-paced, sophisticated modern lives, the arts encourage us to show that we care about important things."--BOOK JACKET.
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Intimacy (Psychology), Arts and societyShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began
2015, University of Washington Press
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Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began
Jul 16, 2015, University of Washington Press
hardcover
0295995785 9780295995786
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Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began (McLellan Books)
April 2000, University of Washington Press
Hardcover
in English
0295979119 9780295979113
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"IN ALDOUS HUXLEY'S early novel Antic Hay, Theodore Gombril, Jr., attends a concert of chamber music and hears a performance of Mozart's String Quintet in G Minor."
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