The origins of art; a psychological & sociological inquiryHirn, Y. (Yrjö)
Philosophy
The origins of art; a psychological & sociological inquiry
Hirn, Y. (Yrjö)
Aesthetics; Art -- Philosophy; Art, Primitive
Wallaschek, 12, 87, 106, 230, 261, 263
Ward, 183, 226
Weddel, 79
Welcker, 59
Westermarck, 190, 193, 205, 209, 212, 215, 216, 220, 227
Weston, 283
Wilken, 216, 222
Williams, 165, 262, 283
Wilson and Felkin, 158
Winterbottom, 254, 285
Wissman, 254
Woldt, 287
Wood, 152, 265, 268, 269, 270, 271
Woods, 159, 160, 224, 233, 251, 262, 279, 283
Wundt, 62, 221
Wuttke, 222, 223, 224, 226, 271
Wzn, 291
Zacher, 284
Ziegler, 200
Zoysa, de, 237
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
Acquired pleasure-gettings, 57
Acting, psychology of, 52, 53
Activity and feeling, 32-35;
activity involved in _dolce far niente_, 37
Æsthetic, its position as a science, 1, 2, 4, 5;
its development 1-3;
its methods, 5, 6
feelings, 141
judgment, presupposing some degree of intellectual and moral
development, 188
of the hen, 187;
its development in apparent conflict with natural selection, 189
Agricultural rites, 287
Anæsthesia and self-woundings, 61-65
Ancestor worship, 175
Anger, 47, 48, 54, 62
Animal display, 186-202
Animating idols, means of, 291
Aphasia, 151
Apolline serenity _versus_ Dionysiac rapture, 105
Architecture, the, of the Dyaks, 274;
of the Maoris, 275
Art, as explained by supernatural causes, 12;
as excitement and sedative, 70, 71;
as connected with sexual selection, 203-213;
its higher and lower forms, 140
the, of animals, 202
the reliever, 102-110
Art-impulse, the, 15, 18-29, 84, 85, 100, 101, 303;
a racial possession of mankind, 21, 22;
intellectualistic definitions, 23
Art-sense, the conditions of its development, 141, 142
Artistic intuition, 125
Association between pleasure and activity, 33
Attract by pleasing, impulse to, 24, 25, 186, 187, 214, 215, 233 _sq._
“Attractive” qualities of the work of art, 99
Autotelic activities outside the department of art, 19, 20;
character of art, 7-15, 88, 304
“Balls on sockets,” 193
Bird-shaped amulets, 287
Boasting adornments, 222
Boating-songs and dances, 259, 260
Brilliancy, the physiological effects created by, 194-197
Choral dances, 261
Chorus, the, in the ancient drama, 94
Classification of instances of erotic art, 231-238
Clothing, the origin of, 204-206, 215-220
_Cognitio sensitiva_, 2
Collective feeling, 81, 82
psychology, 74-85
Consciousness of self, 62-64
Contempt, expression of, its importance in primitive tactics, 268, 269
Couvade, 280
Coyness of the female, 197, 198
Creation, artistic, involved in artistic enjoyment, 18, 19
Criterion of art, the, 7 _sq._
Crying feasts and ceremonial wailings, 59
Cure, medical, of restoring people by pulling them through a narrow
opening, 285, 286
Dance, 87, 89, 92, 230
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