The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art by Anjan Chatterjee
Published 2014 · 67,100 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art to read?
The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art scores 53 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 58 out of 100
- Neuroscience and aesthetics vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Clear academic-popular sentences.
- Abstraction: 65 out of 100
- Beauty treated as an evolutionary and neural question.
- Information density: 62 out of 100
- Dense with studies.
How The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art is regarded
The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art holds a literary regard score of 36 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.