The Recovery of Beauty : Arts, Culture, Medicine /: Arts, Culture, Medicine. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Corinne Saunders, Jane Macnaughton, David Fuller.
• Authors: Saunders, Corinne; Fuller, David
• Editors: Macnaughton, Jane
• Contents: List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsNotes on the contributorsIntroduction; David Fuller, Corinne Saunders, Jane MacnaughtonPART I: MIND, BODY, SOUL1. Beautiful Ideas: The Visibility of Truth; Mark McIntosh2. Beauty, Virtue and Danger in Medieval English Romance; Corinne Saunders 3.Bathing for Beauty in the Middle Ages; Elizabeth Archibald 4. Posture is Beauty; Sander Gilman PART II: ART, IDEAS, IDEALS5. Beauty, Pain, and Violence: Through Lessing and Nietzsche to King Lear; David Fuller6. Beauty Writes Literary History: Revisiting the Myth of Bloomsbury; Patricia Waugh 7. 'Raising Sparks'; An Interview with Michael Symmons Roberts 8. 'More natural than nature, more artificial than art'; An Interview with David Bintley PART III: SURGERY, REPARATION, IMAGINATION9. 'Elegant' Surgery: The Beauty of Clinical Expertise; Jane Macnaughton 10. Portraiture, Beauty, Pain; Ludmilla Jordanova 11. War and Beauty: The Act of Unmasking in Pat Barker's Toby's Room and Louisa Young's My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You; Anne Whitehead PART IV: RESCUING BEAUTY12. Beauty in the Brain of the Beholder: Art, Neural Plasticity and Visual Pleasure; John Onians 13. The Pendulum of Taste: Architecture and the Rise of a State Aesthetic; Simon Thurley 14. Beauty and the Sacred; Roger Scruton BibliographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (292 pages)
• Subjects: Culture-Study and teaching; Philosophy -- Aesthetics; Literary Criticism -- General; Literary Criticism -- European -- General; Art -- General; Art -- Criticism & Theory; Philosophy: aesthetics; Literature & literary studies; Literature: history & criticism; The arts: general issues; Art forms; Performing arts; Aesthetics; Literature; European literature; Arts; Fine arts; Performing Arts -- General; Dance & other performing arts
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137426741
• Related ISBNs: 9781137426734
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.