Art Instinct – Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution

A philosopher of art, Denis Dutton’s Art Instinct focuses on art and evolution, two contentious topics. He offers a revolutionary perspective on how art is perceived, arguing that aesthetic taste is an evolutionary trait that is shaped by natural selection. Dutton, shares his findings with the reader, how aesthetics are not just a social construct as art critics and academics suggest, but it evolves in relation to time and space throughout the history. Art Instinct, promoting the idea that art criticism should include not only abstract concepts but also evolutionary phenomena within this logic, paving the way for new ideas in the world of science and art. Denis Dutton’s book is published with Murat Turan’s translation from Ayrıntı Yayınları.