Text Ticker: Painting and the Pleistocene
Elizabeth Cline, my skillful editor at seedmagazine.com, has a new interview with Denis Dutton, editor of Arts & Letters Daily (the first blog I fell in love with) and now author of The Art Instinct. Like The Economist, he's the latest in the set of outsiders who is using evolution as a language for human culture.
The arts have a central place in human experience across the globe. They take place in all cultures in a spontaneously understood, pleasurable, make-believe world. The universality of the arts is crying out for some general explanation. In my view, only Darwin can supply it. We have to acknowledge first that these commonalities exist and then ask how we can explain them. That's what my book is about.
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