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Do Animals Make Art or the Evolutionary Continuity of Species: A Case for Uniqueness
| Title: | Do Animals Make Art or the Evolutionary Continuity of Species: A Case for Uniqueness |
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| Authors: | Jerzy Luty |
| Source: | Avant: Journal of Philosophical-Interdisciplinary Vanguard, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 107-116 (2017) |
| Subject Terms: | evolutionary aesthetics, animal-made art, ethology, art definition, Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, RC321-571, Philosophy (General), B1-5802 |
| Publisher Information: | Centre for Philosophical Research, 2017. |
| Publication Year: | 2017 |
| Collection: | LCC:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry LCC:Philosophy (General) |
| Description: | When Władysław Tatarkiewicz wrote that there are only two things that can be said about art: that it is a human activity, not a product of nature, and that it is a conscious activity (or its product), adding that every statement about art different from the ones mentioned above was always finally overthrown (Tatarkiewicz, 1980, p. 37), he probably did not think that the first claim could be questioned by anyone. In the following paper, I will trace the history of observations of “artistic behaviors” that were made by animal ethologists and then processed by evolutionary art philosophers who may lead to the hypothesis about the validity of assigning artistic abilities to animals. In respect to this article is aimed at a wide audience. I will also demonstrate that the question: whether, and in what sense, animals create art is in fact a question about a definition of art that could include this type of intentional animal acts. |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | English Polish |
| ISSN: | 2082-6710 |
| Relation: | http://avant.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/Luty-Do-Animals-Make-Art.pdf; https://doaj.org/toc/2082-6710 |
| DOI: | 10.26913/80102017.0101.0008 |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/0d66e2399550441b8771356449f60ff0 |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.0d66e2399550441b8771356449f60ff0 |
| ISSN: | 20826710 |
| DOI: | 10.26913/80102017.0101.0008 |
| Database: | Directory of Open Access Journals |