1. “Palaeoanthropsychobiological” is a term to summary art for life’s sake. This long word includes several prefix to define the sake of art. This term suggests three points as following. First, “Palaeo-” means ancient. The concepts or understanding of art has a long history based on human activity. It maybe goes through all the history of human being. Secondly, “anthro-” is a prefix that related to human. Indeed, the development of art cannot be separated from human’s culture. Therefore, the art for life’s sake should also related to human. Thirdly, “psychological” shows that art relates to people’s emotional activities and is influenced by the emotional activities.

Dissanayake coined this term from a unfamiliar and different perspective.

2. Dissanayake states that “making special” is the process in which human people gain their ability to defense or to fight with the predators. People needed to come up special methods or technologies to protect themselves so that they could survive in a dangerous environment. For instance, organized people who had a stronger leadership could arrange their activities in an efficient so that they could get enough food and avoid the predators.

“Making special” also triggered the beginning of art. People would like to use different paintings to show the specialties. What’s more, the using of painting or decorating during the ceremonies or some group activities could show the specialties of each person as well as the confidence and unity of a group of people. Because of the purpose of making special, people started the history of art.

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1). The concept “art” appears in “early treaties from Greek and medieval times. But it must be realized that these are translations and that the authors may not have meant the same thing by the word ‘art’ as we do” (Dissanayake,2). Plato talked about beauty, poetry, and image making while “Aristotle dealt with poetry and tragedy. They used a word, techne”, which is a word equivalent to fishing, chariot driving, and other mundane activities. The term meant that “‘having a correct understanding of the principles involved’”(Dissanayake, 2).

2). “Modernism: Art as Ideology”   Time period: 18^th century.

During this period of time, thinkers paid their attentions to the term “aesthetics”. This term is “a concern with elucidating principles such as taste and beauty that govern all the arts and indeed make them not simply paintings or statues but examples of (fine) ‘art’” (Dissanayake, 3).

3). “Postmodernism: Art as Interpretation”  Time period: 20^th century.

Postmodernism challenges modernist ideology totally. Postmodernists thought that “truth” or “reality” is the only a point of view. That is a ‘representation’ that comes to us mediated and conditioned by our language, our social institutions, the assumptions that characterize individuals as members of a nation, a race, a gender, a class, a profession, a religious body, a particular historical period” (Dissanayake, 5).