Describe the term paleoanthropsychobiological. Who coined this term?
Human history,society and huam psychology. He explain in the text “First, that the idea of art encompassed all of human history (i.e., as far back as the Palacolithic or even earlier); second, that it include all human societies (i.e., is anthropological or cross-cultural); and third, that it account for the fact that art is a psychological or emotional need and has psychological or emotional effects” (Dissanayake 15).
2.What does Dissanayake mean by the phrase “making special”? How does it relate to art and to human survival?
Base on the reading the “making special” means “something that is ‘special’ is different from the mundane, the everyday, the ordinary. It is extra-ordinary” (Dissanayake 22). The author believes that art is one of the way that make people different. It is a very basic thing for human survival because it is a fundamental human proclivity or need.
3.Dissanayake identifies many different theories/movement/periods of art throughout western European history. Name three different theories of art that DiSantayanaentions in her essay. Identify the time period when each theory developed and was prominent. Provide a brief description of the philosophies and ideas that define each theory/movement/period of art. Support your answer with quotes from the reading.
She mention the Renaissance era of art during medieval times “replaced God-centered art with man-centered concerns” (Dissanayake, p.2). During this period of time, art was trying to show the ideas of that time. People’s thinking, the social and the political all of this things had a huge change at that time period. “A declaration of the end of all isms and movements” (Dissanayake, p. 5). Postmodernists are more focusing on the what the other people are thinking and their ideas about it.