Art and intimacy : how the arts began /

"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 i...

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Main Author: Dissanayake, Ellen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle, Wa : University of Washington Press, 2000
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