Ellen Dissanayake is Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington and has recently held Distinguished Visiting Professorships in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, and at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. She has lectured and taught in a variety of settings, including the New School for Social Research in New York City, the National Arts School in Papua New Guinea, and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. She is the author of Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and What Is Art For?
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: Love and Art
Mutuality
Belonging
Finding and Making Meaning
"Hands-on" Competence
Elaborating
Taking the Arts Seriously
Appendix: Toward a Naturalistic Aesthetics
Notes
References Cited
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
