The Unification of the Arts: A Framework for Understanding What the Arts Share and Why

by Steven Brown

What are the arts? What functions do the arts serve in human life? There has been a surge of cognitive, biological, and evolutionary interest in the arts in recent years, most of it oriented towards individual artforms. However, there has been virtually no bridging work to integrate the arts under a single theoretical perspective.

This book presents the first integrated cognitive account of the arts that unites visual art, theatre, literature,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198864876
• ISBN13: 9780198864875
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.1" x 10.1"