Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began
To Ellen Dissanayake, the arts are biologically evolved propensities of human nature: their fundamental features…
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The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution
The Art Instinct combines two of the most fascinating and contentious disciplines, art and evolutionary…
Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation
A Dutch artist offers his concept of seeing and drawing as a discipline by which…
Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
A revolutionary look at how what we pay attention to determines how we experience life.…
Art and Healing: Using Expressive Art to Heal Your Body, Mind, and Spirit
Artists have always known intuitively what science is just beginning to discover: that creating a…
Art, Mind, And Brain: A Cognitive Approach To Creativity
In a provocative discussion of the sources of human creativity, Gardner explores all aspects of…
Developing Intuition: Practical Guidance for Daily Life
If embraced and followed, intuition can be an accurate force that permeates all facets of…
How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day
Genius is made, not born. And human beings are gifted with an almost unlimited potential…
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses…
A Touch of Wonder
This is a book about looking and seeing. The underlying theme is that there’s a…