Screen LibraryArtistic Visions and the Promise of Beauty : Cross-Cultural Perspectives /
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. It reflects on the nature and value of beauty, asking whether beauty still has a future in art and what role it can play...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures,
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43893-1 |
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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. It reflects on the nature and value of beauty, asking whether beauty still has a future in art and what role it can play in our lives generally. The volume discusses the possible end of art, what art is, and the relation between art and beauty beyond their historically Western horizons to include perspectives from Asia. The individual chapters address a number of interrelated issues, including: art, beauty and the |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(VI,144pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783319438931 |
| Index Number: | BH1 |
| CLC: | J0-02 |
| Contents: | 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 -- 1 |