Books
- Early Rock Art of the American West: The Geometric Enigma
- L’infanzia dell’Estetica. L’origine Evolutiva delle Pratiche Artistiche
- Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began
- Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why
- What Is Art For?
Book Chapters and Other Scholarly Writing
- Artification
- Evolution of the Behaviour of Art
- Biological and Neurobiological Underpinnings of Aesthetics and the Arts
- Literature and the Imagination
- Music
- Rock Art
- Art Education
- Miscellaneous
General Articles on the Arts
- Evolution of the Arts
- Music
- Rock Art
- Art Therapy
- Craft and Design
- Miscellaneous
- Articles on Nonwestern Arts and Artists
- 1992 Articles in Sri Lanka
- Book Reviews
- Exhibition Reviews
Lectures
- Art as a Behavior
- Music/Music Cognition/Music Education
- The Arts (Miscellaneous)
- Rock Art
- Aesthetics (Philosophy/Psychology/Neuroscience of Art)
- Art Education
- Art Therapy/Arts & Music in Health Care
- Anthropology/Ethology of Art
- Craft and Design
- Conference Participation
From the preface to 1995's Homo Aestheticus:
At first glance, the fact that the arts and related aesthetic attitudes vary so widely from one society to another would seem to suggest that they are wholly learned or 'cultural' in origin rather than, as I will show, also biological or 'natural.' One can make an analogy with language: learning to speak is a universal, innate predisposition for all children even though individual children learn the particular language of the people among whom they are nurtured. Similarly, art can be regarded as a natural, general proclivity that manifests itself in culturally learned specifics such as dances, songs, performances, visual display, and poetic speech.