Books by Ellen Dissanayake and Complete Book Reviews

Ellen Dissanayake, Author University of Washington Press $29.95 (265p) ISBN 978-0-295-97911-3
The latest from Dissanayake (Homo Aestheticus; What Is Art For?) pursues two grand and simultaneous goals: the first is to show that aesthetic experience in all its variety (viewing paintings, playing concerti, observing sunsets, etc.) shares basic...
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Ellen Dissanayake, Author Free Press $24.95 (297p) ISBN 978-0-02-907885-3
Making art is a biologically innate need as fundamental as the need for food, warmth or shelter, asserts Dissanayake, who teaches at Manhattan's New School for Social Research. In a provocative manifesto that extends the thesis of her previous book...
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