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Artistic Visions and the Promise of Beauty

Cross-Cultural Perspectives - Previously published in hardcover
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
265 Seiten
Englisch
Springererschienen am18.07.2018Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
This volume examines the motives behind rejections of beauty often found within contemporary art practice, where much critically acclaimed art is deliberately ugly and alienating.mehr
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Produkt

KlappentextThis volume examines the motives behind rejections of beauty often found within contemporary art practice, where much critically acclaimed art is deliberately ugly and alienating.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-319-82937-1
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2018
Erscheinungsdatum18.07.2018
AuflageSoftcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
ReiheSophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures
Seiten265 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht417 g
IllustrationenVI, 265 p.
Artikel-Nr.45654502

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1:  Introduction, K. Higgins and S. Maira.- I. What Happened to Beauty?- 2: Beauty: A Promise of Enduring Art, R. Lorand.- 3: The Hollowing of Art and the Call of Beauty, S. Maira.- 4: Iconoclasm and the Demise of Aesthetics, A. Menon.- II. Judging Beautiful Bodies.- 5: Western Theories of Beauty and Non-Western Peoples, P. Mitter.- 6: Valli and Devasena, A. Pande.- 7: Female Bodies in China: Literati Fantasies, Iron Girls and Olympics Hoopla, E. Man.- III. Beauty, Virtue, and Happiness.- 8: Buddhism, Beauty, and Virtue, D. Cooper.- 9: Confucian Aesthetics of Persons, E. Mullis.- 10: Beauty and the Sense of Life, K. Higgins.- 11: Dwelling with Beauty, S. Sikka.- IV. Beauty and the Self.- 12: Artistic Creativity, S. Miri.- 13: Letting Objects Speak: Beauty in the Japanese Artistic Tradition, Y.Saito.- 14: Perceiving Beauty, Recognizing Self, Y. Lochan.- V. Beauty as Daily Practice.- 15: Art, Craft and Beauty - A Subjective Vision? L. Tyabji.- 16:   The Beatiful in Bali, S. Davies.- 17: The Aesthetics of Everyday Life: An Exploration through the Buddhist Concept of Vikalpa, P. Patnaik.- 18: Daoist Aesthetics of the Everyday and the Fantastical, S. Mattice.mehr

Autor

Kathleen M. Higgins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. Her main areas of research are aesthetics, continental philosophy, and philosophy of emotion. She is author of a number of books, including The Music of Our Lives (1991/ rev. 2011) and The Music between Us: Is Music the Universal Language? (2012), which received the American Society for Aesthetics Outstanding Monograph Prize in 2013. She has been a Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference Center and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.Shakti Maira is a respected contemporary artist in India. His work is in international collections and in the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. In 2005 he helped organize the 'Learning through the Arts in Asia' symposium. Subsequently, UNESCO invited him to formulate
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