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Aesthetic Gadgets: Rethinking Universalism in Evolutionary Aesthetics [PDF]

Philosophies, 2022
There is a growing appetite for the inclusion of outcomes of empirical research into philosophical aesthetics. At the same time, evolutionary aesthetics remains in the margins with little mutual discussion with the various strands of philosophical ...
Onerva Kiianlinna
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Evolutionary Aesthetics and Print Advertising

SAGE Open, 2015
The article analyzes the extent to which predictions based on the theory of evolutionary aesthetics are utilized by the advertising industry. The purpose of a comprehensive content analysis of print advertising is to determine whether the items indicated
Kamil Luczaj
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What is Evolutionary Aesthetics for?

Aisthesis, 2013
What is evolutionary aesthetics for? This paper investigates whether and in what way it may be useful to develop a conception of artistic practices as culturally differentiated behaviours in response to our vital needs, without resorting to a ...
Roberta Dreon
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Evolutionary Aesthetics

International Lexicon of Aesthetics, 2023
Evolutionary aesthetics (EA) investigates the origins and evolution of aesthetic preferences and artistic behaviors, along with the underlying capacities that support these preferences and behaviors. EA is a multidisciplinary approach that intersects various disciplines – e.g.
Luca Marchetti
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Cultural evolution – of the arts [PDF]

Evolutionary Human Sciences
In this paper, we chart an emerging academic terrain: cultural evolution of the arts, which is a theory-driven exploration of artistic dynamics, often done with large datasets of music, literature, movies, paintings, or games. This field has grown at the
Oleg Sobchuk, Mason Youngblood
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Complexity and aesthetics in generative and evolutionary art

Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 2022
AbstractIn this paper we examine the concept of complexity as it applies to generative and evolutionary art and design. Complexity has many different, discipline specific definitions, such as complexity in physical systems (entropy), algorithmic measures of information complexity and the field of “complex systems”.
Jon McCormack, Camilo Cruz Gambardella
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Contradiction That Never Was: Epigenesis versus Modularity in Evolutionary Aesthetics

Aisthesis, 2022
Coevolutionary aesthetics has been forming since the early 2010s. Its contribution of great value has been the inclusion of cultural evolution into Darwinian theories on the origins of art and aesthetic judgement.
Onerva Kiianlinna
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What Is Evolutionary Aesthetics? Three Waves

Estetika, 2023
Evolutionary aesthetics (EA) is often associated with the rise of evolutionary psychology, from roughly the 1980s until the 2010s. Yet that was neither the beginning nor the end of the field but rather a middle wave after the first and before the third ...
Onerva Kiianlinna
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On the connection between creativity and aesthetics [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
Within cognitive psychology, there are separate experimental fields devoted to the study of creativity, on the one hand, and aesthetics, on the other, with virtually no cross-talk between them. In this article, I propose a means of uniting creativity and
Steven Brown
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The Evolutionary Value of an Aesthetic Sense

Aisthesis, 2013
The aesthetic sense we inherited from our successful ancestors drew them toward conditions that made for survival and reproductive success and repelled them away from conditions that impacted negatively on longevity and fertility. But for them, as for us,
Stephen Davies
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