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The Cosmetic Brain can take the listener on the wide-ranging journey through the world of beauty, pleasure, and artwork. Chatterjee uses neuroscience to probe how an aesthetic sense is etched inside our minds and evolutionary mindset to describe why aesthetic concerns feature centrally inside our lives. On the way, Chatterjee addresses fundamental questions: What is beauty? Is beauty general? How is beauty related to pleasure? What is art? Should artwork be beautiful? Do we have an instinct for artwork? Chatterjee begins by probing the reasons that people find people, places, and even amounts beautiful. At the main of beauty, he finds, is pleasure. He then examines our pleasures by dissecting why we want and why we like food, love-making, and money and how these rewards relate to aesthetic encounters. His ruminations on beauty and pleasure put together him and the listener to face artwork. He wanders through the issues of defining artwork, understanding contemporary artwork, and interpreting historical artwork. He explores why artwork, something that seems so worthless, also feels fundamental to our mankind. Replete with facts, anecdotes, and analogies, this empirical guide to looks offers technological answers without deflating the magic of beauty and artwork.
