Artistic visions and the promise of beauty : cross-cultural perspectives /: cross-cultural perspectives. (2017)
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- Book
- Title:
- Artistic visions and the promise of beauty : cross-cultural perspectives /: cross-cultural perspectives. (2017)
- Main Title:
- Artistic visions and the promise of beauty : cross-cultural perspectives
- Further Information:
- Note: Kathleen M. Higgins, Shakti Maira, Sonia Sikka, editors.
- Editors:
- Higgins, Kathleen M
Maira, Shakti
Sikka, Sonia - Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction; References; Part I: What Happened to Beauty?; Chapter 2: The Hollowing of Art and the Call of Beauty; The Narrowing of Art; Beauty Misunderstood; The Nature of Beauty; Conclusion: Art and Beauty; References; Chapter 3: Iconoclasm and the Demise of Aesthetics; References; Chapter 4: Beauty: A Promise of Enduring Art; Danto's 'End of Art'; Why Do We Need Art?; Needs and Pleasures; The Need for Art Is a Derivative of the Need for Beauty; What Is Beauty and What Kind of Need Does it Satisfy?; References. Chapter 5: Beauty, Religion and Tradition in Post-Nuclear Japanese Arts and Aesthetics Introduction; Caveats; Examples: The Radical Traditional in Aesthetics and the Arts; Traditional Categorical Aesthetics; Beauty and Its Effects; Traditional Environmental Aesthetics and the Special Nature of Japanese Environments; Beauty, Place and Environment; Conclusions: Distinctive Features of Japanese Types of Beauty and the Radical Traditional; References; Part II: Judging Beautiful Bodies; Chapter 6: Western Theories of Beauty and Non-Western Peoples; References; Chapter 7: Valli and Devasena. Aesthetic of Indian Beauty Women as Natural Beauties; Women as Nayikas; The Feminine Body Adorned; Beauty of Moving Image; Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: Female Bodies in China: Literati Fantasies, Iron Girls and Olympics Hoopla; The Notion of Feminine Beauty in Classical Confucian and Taoist Texts; The Contemporary Notion of Female Beauty in China; References; PartChapter 1: Introduction; References; Part I: What Happened to Beauty?; Chapter 2: The Hollowing of Art and the Call of Beauty; The Narrowing of Art; Beauty Misunderstood; The Nature of Beauty; Conclusion: Art and Beauty; References; Chapter 3: Iconoclasm and the Demise of Aesthetics; References; Chapter 4: Beauty: A Promise of Enduring Art; Danto's 'End of Art'; Why Do We Need Art?; Needs and Pleasures; The Need for Art Is a Derivative of the Need for Beauty; What Is Beauty and What Kind of Need Does it Satisfy?; References. Chapter 5: Beauty, Religion and Tradition in Post-Nuclear Japanese Arts and Aesthetics Introduction; Caveats; Examples: The Radical Traditional in Aesthetics and the Arts; Traditional Categorical Aesthetics; Beauty and Its Effects; Traditional Environmental Aesthetics and the Special Nature of Japanese Environments; Beauty, Place and Environment; Conclusions: Distinctive Features of Japanese Types of Beauty and the Radical Traditional; References; Part II: Judging Beautiful Bodies; Chapter 6: Western Theories of Beauty and Non-Western Peoples; References; Chapter 7: Valli and Devasena. Aesthetic of Indian Beauty Women as Natural Beauties; Women as Nayikas; The Feminine Body Adorned; Beauty of Moving Image; Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: Female Bodies in China: Literati Fantasies, Iron Girls and Olympics Hoopla; The Notion of Feminine Beauty in Classical Confucian and Taoist Texts; The Contemporary Notion of Female Beauty in China; References; Part III: Beauty, Virtue and Happiness; Chapter 9: Buddhism, Beauty and Virtue; The Buddhist Suspicion of Beauty; 'Inner' Beauty; Expression and Virtue; 'Attracting the Heart'; Body, Art and Beauty; References. Chapter 10: Thinking Through an Embodied Confucian Aesthetics of Persons General Aspects of an Embodied Aesthetics of Persons; Confucian Philosophy and Confucian Aesthetics; Issues; Conclusion; References; Chapter 11: Beauty and the Sense of Life; The Demotion of Beauty by Hegel's "End of Art"; Cultural Diversity Regarding Beauty: The Western and Indian Traditions; Beauty Furthering a Sense of Life; Beauty as Healing in the Context of Loss; Conclusion; References; Chapter 12: Dwelling with Beauty; Beauty as Illusion; Beauty as Revelation; Conclusion; References. Part IV: Beauty and the SelfChapter 13: Artistic Creativity: Individual and the Community (Remarks on Tagore's notion of the 'Surplus' in Man); References; Chapter 14: Letting Objects Speak: Beauty in the Japanese Artistic Tradition; Art as Giving Voice to the Object; The Virtue of Transcending Oneself; The Art of Artlessness; Paradox of Wabi Aesthetics; Conclusion; References; Chapter 15: Perceiving Beauty, Recognizing Self; 1; 2; 3; Part V: Beauty as Daily Practice; Chapter 16: Art, Craft & Beauty -- A Subjective Caste System; References; Chapter 17: The Beautiful in Bali. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Cham : Springer
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 111.85
Art -- Philosophy
Visions in art
PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics
Art -- Philosophy
Visions in art
Philosophy
Aesthetics
Fine Arts
Cultural Studies
Electronic books
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783319438931
- Related ISBNs:
- 331943893X
9783319438917
3319438913 - Notes:
- Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 17, 2017).
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