Books written by Ellen Dissanayake

  • Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why

    ... lll, 227 Chase, Philip G., 233, 238 Chatwin, Bruce, 178 Chomsky, Noam, 190 Churchland, Patricia S., 22, 155, 179, ... 228, 238, 239 Cohen, Harold, 162–64, 243 Cohen, L. B., 160 Cohn, Robert Greer, 174, 243 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, ...

  • Early Rock Art of the American West: The Geometric Enigma

    In C. Renfrew, I. Morley, and M. Boyd, eds., Ritual, Play and Belief in Evolution and Early Human Societies, 143–68. ... Gibson, James J. 1979. ... In M. Chibatani, ed., The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation, 23–56.

  • Early Rock Art of the American West: The Geometric Enigma

    Until Early Rock Art in the American West, however, no book-length study has been devoted to the deep antiquity and amazing range of geometrics and the fascinating questions that arise from their ubiquity and variety.

  • What Is Art For?

    125284 United Nations/Doranne Jacobson (1982), 152587 United Nations/Doranne Jacobson, 152586 United Nations/John Isaac, 146623 United Nations/John Isaac (1973), 125261 Leonard Becker Geoffrey Clements Todd Weinstein AMNH/Capt.

  • Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began

    ... Bambi B., 54, 55, 182 Schieffelin, Edward, 162, 212 Schiff, Joel, 235 Schleidt, Margret, 62 Schore, A. N., 16, 38, 41, 50 Schweitzer, Julie, 189 Seelig, Warren, 151, 178 Shaw, Gordon L., 196 Shelley, Mary, 215 Simmons, Seymour III, ...

  • What is Art For?

    A new theory of the evolutionary significance of art (meaning not only visual art, but music, poetic language, dance, and performance).

  • Early Rock Art of the American West: The Geometric Enigma

    Until Early Rock Art in the American West, however, no book-length study has been devoted to the deep antiquity and amazing range of geometrics and the fascinating questions that arise from their ubiquity and variety.