Christa Sütterlin
Max Planck Society
14 Papers
72 Citations
Christa Sütterlin is an academic researcher from Max Planck Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Human ethology & The arts. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 14 publications. Previous affiliations of Christa Sütterlin include Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
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Papers
Art as behaviour - an ethological approach to visual and verbal art, music and architecture
TL;DR: The Ethology of the Arts-group's research focuses on visual and verbal art, music and built environment/architecture and is designed to contribute to the incipient interdisciplinarity in the field of evolutionary art research.
Universals in Apotropaic Symbolism: A Behavioral and Comparative Approach to Some Medieval Sculptures
TL;DR: The authors found evidence for the interpretation of similar expressions as ritualized forms of a common pattern in human communication, such as making faces, showing the tongue, presenting the buttocks or genitals.
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Aristotle's dream: Evolutionary and neural aspects of aesthetic communication in the arts
Christa Sütterlin,Xinchi Yu +1 more
TL;DR: Art in general perception is something that transcends our notion of reality as mentioned in this paper, and it was just the claim for "mimesis" in Greek antiquity (Plato) that urged artists to "realistically" depict what can be seen-as to stay in track of eternal messages behind.
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