Why man, who has the innate ability to appreciate intelligent design, transfers the symmetry found in nature to art.

The artful universe expanded  John D. Barrow  Oxford ; New York : Oxford
University Press,  2005  019280569x Nature (Aesthetics) Hardcover. [New ed.].
Rev. ed. of: The artful universe. 1995. xii,  321 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes
bibliographical references (p. [287]-306) and index.  Clean,  tight and strong
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Our love of art, writes John Barrow, is the end product of millions of years of
evolution. How we react to a beautiful painting or symphony draws upon instincts
laid down long before humans existed. Now, in this enhanced edition of the highly
popular The Artful Universe, Barrow further explores the close ties between our
aesthetic appreciation and the basic nature of the Universe. Barrow argues that
the laws of the Universe have imprinted themselves upon our thoughts and actions
in subtle and unexpected ways. Why do we like certain types of art or music?
What games and puzzles do we find challenging? Why do so many myths and
legends have common elements?  In this eclectic and entertaining survey, Barrow
answers these questions and more as he explains how the landscape of the
Universe has influenced the development of philosophy and mythology, and how
millions of years of evolutionary history have fashioned our attraction to certain
patterns of sound and color.

Barrow casts the story of human creativity and thought in a fascinating light,
considering such diverse topics as our instinct for language, the origins and uses
of color in nature, why we divide time into intervals as we do, the sources of our
appreciation of landscape painting, and whether computer-generated fractal art is
really art. Drawing on a wide variety of examples, from the theological questions
raised by St. Augustine and C.S. Lewis to the relationship between the pure math
of Pythagoras and the music of the Beatles, The Artful Universe Expanded covers
new ground and enters a wide-ranging debate about the meaning and
significance of the links between art and science. 

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