Episode 46: Why We Do Art OR What’s with All the Scribbles, Doodles, and Ditties?

The Two Humans adjust their berets and trim their goatees before heading off to the coffee house to ask: Why Art? Finger snapping is encouraged. Episode 46: Why We Do Art OR What’s with All the Scribbles, Doodles, and Ditties? An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human. http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 IG @introtoanthrowith2humans Resources: Artsper 2022 How a Urinal Changed Art History Forever: The Duchamp Fountain. Artsper Magazine, March 7, 2022, blog.artsper.com/en/a-closer-look/how-a-urinal-changed-art-history-the-duchamp-fountain/.   Associated Press 2005 Chimpanzee’s Artwork Auctioned for $25,000. The Seattle Times, June 21, 2005, www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/chimpanzees-artwork-auctioned-for-25000/.   Cave, Nick and Sean O’Hagan 2022 Faith, Hope, and Carnage. Picado, New York, NY.   Clowney, David 2011 Definitions of Art and Fine Art’s Historical Origins. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Summer 2011, Vol. 69, No. 3 (Summer 2011), pp. 309-320.   Cottak, Conrad Phillip 2011 Cultural Anthropology: Appreciating Cultural Diversity, Fourteenth Addition. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.   Daley, Jason 2019 Art by Congo, the Famous Painting Ape, to Go on Sale. Smithsonian Magazine, October 9, 2019, www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dozens-paintings-1950s-chimp-artist-congo-go-sale-180973305/.   Davis, Eleanor 2018 Why Art? Fantagraphics Books, Seattle, WA. Davis, Whitney 1993 Beginning the History of Art. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Summer, 1993, Vol. 51, No. 3, Philosophy and the Histories of the Arts (Summer, 1993), pp. 327-350.   Dutton, Denis 2010 The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure & Human Evolution. Bloomsbury Press, New York, NY.   Feder, Kenneth L.  and Michael Alan Park 2007 Human Antiquity: An Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, Fifth Edition. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.   Ferraro, Gary and Susan Andreatta 2012 Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Belmont, CA.   Halverson, John 1987 Art for Art’s Sake in the Paleolithic. Current Anthropology, Feb., 1987, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Feb., 1987), pp. 63-89.   Haviland, William A., Dana Walrath, Harold E. L. Prins, and Bunny McBride 2011 Evolution and Prehistory: The Human Challenge, Nineth Edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Belmont, CA.   Janson, H. W. and Anthony F. Janson 1987 A Basic History of Art (Third Edition). Harry N. Abrams, New York, NY. Keane, Tim 2019 Seeing Ourselves in a Chimpanzee’s Art. Hyperallergic, December 14, 2019, hyperallergic.com/532725/congo-the-chimpanzee-the-birth-of-art-at-the-mayor-gallery/.   Mann, Jon 2017 How Duchamp’s Urinal Changed Art Forever. Artsy.net, May 9, 2017, www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-duchamps-urinal-changed-art-forever   Mather, George 2021 The Psychology of Art. Routledge, Abingdon, UK.   Mayor Gallery 2019 Congo the Chimpanzee (Press Release). Mayor Gallery, www.mayorgallery.com/ exhibitions/549-congo-the-chimpanzee-the-birth-of-art/.   Mithen, Steven 1996 The Prehistory of the Mind: A Search for the Origins of Art, Religion, and Science. Phoenix, London, UK.   Mullins, Charlotte 2022 A Little History of Art. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.    New World Encyclopedia 2024 Art for Art’s Sake. New World Encyclopedia, www.newworldencyclopedia.org/ entry/Art_for_art%27s_sake#:~:text="Art%20for%20art%27s%20sake"%20is%20the%20usual%20English,became%20a%20bohemian%20slogan%20during%20the%20nineteenth%20century.   Pringle, Zorana Ivcevic 2023 Your Brain on Art. Psychology Today, March 7, 2023, www.psychologytoday.com /us/blog/creativity-the-art-and-science/202303/your-brain-on-art.   Renfrew, Colin and Paul Bahn 2008 Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice (Fifth Edition). Thames & Hudson, New York, NY.   Stokstad, Marilyn 1995 Art History (Volume One). Prentice Hall, Inc. and Harry N. Abrams, Upper Saddle River, NJ.   Sullivan, Marisa 2022 Pink Spends Thousands on Abstract ‘Masterpiece’ Painted by Chimps Ahead of Miami Art Exhibit. People, November 30, 2022, people.com/pets/pink-spends-thousands-on-art-painted-by-chimps-ahead-of-miami-art-basel/.   Winner, Ellen 2019 How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration. Oxford University Press, New York, NY.   Young, Damon 2016 It Is and It Isn’t. Aeon, September 22, 2016, aeon.co/essays/how-can-duchamp-s-fountain-be-both-art-and-not-art.