Primate Aesthetics

In Monkey Painting Lenain argues that any results we gain from the pictures created by non-human primates are not useful, because we have placed the primates in an artificial scenario, and the pictures they make are dictated by the tools they are given and not by the animals themselves. In the wild, he argues, primates […]

By the end of Morris’ work with Congo, he was certain that Congo had achieved the “diagram stage” of human pictorial development.55 The few small circles that he was able to “snatch away” from Congo before they were obliterated and the strange phenomena of the “reverse fan” convinced him that Congo could form a mental […]

Over the course of my research and experiences, many more threads and connections became apparent than I could possibly do justice to within the confines of this thesis. Indeed, any one vignette could be expanded into the basis for another entire exploration. And yet, this thesis is a small disconnected node in the field of […]