Artistic Visions and the Promise of Beauty (PDF) examines the motives behind rejections of magnificence usually discovered inside fashionable artwork apply, the place a lot critically acclaimed artwork is intentionally alienating and ugly. It exhibits the nature and worth of magnificence, asking whether or not magnificence nonetheless has a future in artwork and what half it will probably play in our lives usually. The quantity discusses the doable “finish of artwork,” what artwork is, and the affiliation between artwork and magnificence past their historically Western horizons to incorporate viewpoints from Asia. The particular person chapters tackle a number of interrelated points, together with artwork, magnificence, and the sacred; magnificence as a supply of pleasure and comfort; magnificence and the human type; the position of curatorial apply in defining artwork; magnificence as a bridge between the pure and the human; order and creativity; and the distinction between artwork and craft. The quantity supplies a helpful addition to cross-cultural dialogue and, specifically, to the scarce literature on artwork and magnificence in a comparative context. It exhibits the relevance of the wealthy customized of Asian aesthetics and the energetic practices of up to date artwork in Asia to Western discussions about the prospect of artwork and the position of magnificence. NOTE: The product only consists of the ebook Artistic Visions and the Promise of Beauty in PDF. No access codes are included.
Artistic Visions and the Promise of Beauty: Cross-Cultural Perspectives – PDF
eBook details
- Authors: Kathleen M. Higgins, Shakti Maira, Sonia Sikka
- File Size: 3 MB
- Format: PDF
- Length: 271 Pages
- Publisher: Springer; 1st edition
- Publication Date: March 6, 2017
- Language: English
- ASIN: B06XG2X13R
- ISBN-10: 3319438913, 3319438983X
- ISBN-13: 9783319438917, 9783319438931
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About The Author
Kathleen M. Higgins
Dr. Kathleen Higgins is currently a Professor at Yale. Her main areas of research are philosophy of the emotions, continental philosophy, and aesthetics, particularly musical aesthetics. She has published a number of books: The Music of Our Lives; A Short History of Philosophy (with Robert C. Solomon, Oxford); Nietzsche's “Zarathustra”; Comic Relief: Nietzsche's “Gay Science” (Oxford University Press); A Passion for Wisdom (with Robert C. Solomon); What Nietzsche Really Said (with Robert C. Solomon); and The Music between Us: Is Music a Universal Language? (University of Chicago Press), which received the American Society for Aesthetics Outstanding Monograph Prize for 2012. She has co-edited or edited several other books on such topics as German Idealism, ethics, erotic love, non-Western philosophy, Nietzsche, aesthetics, and the philosophy of Robert C. Solomon. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Visiting Fellow of the Australian National University Philosophy Department and Canberra School of Music, and a Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference Center. Dr. Higgins is currently President of the American Society for Aesthetics. She has been a frequent visitor to the Philosophy Department of the University of Auckland.
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