{"id":368,"date":"2022-02-05T11:57:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T11:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/?p=368"},"modified":"2022-02-05T22:39:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T22:39:50","slug":"the-survival-of-beauty-and-art-aguilar-press-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"<em>The Survival of Beauty and Art<\/em>, Aguilar Press, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/survival.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-369 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/survival-246x300.png\" alt=\"Currently in print (as an ebook).\" width=\"300\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/survival-246x300.png 246w, http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/survival-840x1024.png 840w, http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/survival.png 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><i>The Survival of Beauty and Art<\/i> develops a new theory of aesthetics and art.\u00a0 Art is embedded in what is called \u201cthe artifactual,\u201d i.e., things (like beehives and churches) created by some of nature\u2019s organisms, rather than by nature itself.\u00a0 Aesthetics, by contrast, is rooted in primordial susceptibilities like those of unicellular amoebas at the dawn of life, going in pursuit of what is nutritive or trying to avoid what is aversive.\u00a0 In their over three billion years of evolutionary development, these primitive,\u00a0aesthetic impulses were enriched by\u00a0further natural, and finally\u00a0cultural\u00a0ones.<\/p>\n<p>From its first chapter,\u00a0<i>Survival<\/i> attempts to show how artworks, instead of removing themselves into ever more rarefied spheres of the cultural, for the most part continue to draw on its more natural roots.\u00a0 Wherever appropriate, it fleshes out theories by interpreting individual artworks, backed up by illustrations.\u00a0 In this, Faas draws not just on evolutionary and neuroscientific insights, but on the full arsenal (familiar to him from previous publications) of older interpretive, iconographic, psychological, and art historical approaches.\u00a0\u00a0 Thus, his new theory of aesthetics\/art, although grounded in the life sciences, fully incorporates whatever can be salvaged from traditional humanities disciplines.\u00a0 Hence, <i>Survival\u00a0<\/i>should be of interest to readers looking for the unprecedented and unfamiliar as well as to those continuing to cherish the old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Survival of Beauty and Art develops a new theory of aesthetics and art.\u00a0 Art is embedded in what is called \u201cthe artifactual,\u201d i.e., things (like beehives and churches) created by some of nature\u2019s organisms, rather than by nature itself.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/?p=368\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}