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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Universal principles determine what makes a human face look beautiful.
Chapter 3: Seeking beauty in faces and landscapes helped our ancestors survive.
Chapter 4: External conditions shape our sense of beauty, while culture amplifies traits we naturally favor most.
Chapter 5: Creating art is a universal human behavior, yet art itself resists clear definition entirely.
Chapter 6: Art engages the sensory, emotional, and cognitive networks within the brain.
Chapter 7: Aesthetic experience means liking something without simultaneously wanting.
Chapter 8: Art is widely viewed as either a natural instinct or a by-product of evolution in humans.
Chapter 9: The less we needed to fight for survival, the more freedom we had for art creation.
Description
The Aesthetic Brain (2014) explains how and why the human brain responds to beauty and art. These blinks break down the reasons why we instinctively prefer some faces to others, what art does to our brains and how we started making art in the first place.
Who Should Listen
- Artists and art lovers
- Students of psychology and anthropology
- Curious readers interested in how beauty takes shape in the eye of the beholder