Our vocabularies and manners of expression are endlessly variable and operate in meaning systems that, unlike the basic rule structures, are culturally produced. In this respect, the field of natural languages resembles the field of art considered cross-culturally: both exhibit an interplay between, on the one hand, deep, innate structures and mechanisms of intellectual and emotional life and, on the other hand, a vast ocean of historically contingent cultural material - the styles, vocabularies, and idiosyncrasies that give both language use and art their individual cultural and personal meaning.
Text: Dennis Dutton (The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution)
Poster Design: Mike Lemanski

















