Symptom of Beauty

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Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780231660
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Book Synopsis Symptom of Beauty by : Francette Pacteau

Download or read book Symptom of Beauty written by Francette Pacteau and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a woman in the Western world, there is no escaping beauty. Either she possesses it, or she lacks it. If she lacks it, she may hope to gain it. If she already has it, she will certainly lose it. But what is "it"? Not an objective thing, Francette Pacteau tells us, but a generic term for an unspecifiable number of psychological experiences in the mind of the observer. What these experiences are, what causes them, and how they manifest themselves as a notion of beauty is the subject of this book. Less interested in the contingent object of desire than the fantasy that frames it, Pacteau considers the staging of the aesthetic emotion. Her analysis extends from the Classical ideals of beauty, through Renaissance poetry to the recent formulations of Hollywood. Her book is an ambitious attempt to describe the mise-en-scène of beauty within a particular field of representations – that of the beauty of a woman.

The Symptom of Beauty

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674859876
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (598 download)

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Book Synopsis The Symptom of Beauty by : Francette Pacteau

Download or read book The Symptom of Beauty written by Francette Pacteau and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty is not a singular thing, Francette Pacteau tells us, but a generic term for an unspecifiable number of disparate experiences. What these experiences are is the subject of Pacteau's book, an intriguing psychoanalytic study of beauty that looks into the eye of the beholder and to the mind conjuring behind it. Less interested in the contingent object of desire than the fantasy that frames it, Pacteau considers the staging of the aesthetic emotion. Her book is an ambitious attempt to describe the mise-en-scène of beauty within a particular field of representations - that of the beauty of woman. Within this field, which extends from the classical ideals of beauty from Renaissance to the most recent pinups and bionic women, Pacteau analyzes the formulation of beauty in Western culture. -- from back cover.

Beauty Sick

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062469797
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Book Synopsis Beauty Sick by : Renee Engeln, PhD

Download or read book Beauty Sick written by Renee Engeln, PhD and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Beauty Sick] will blow the top off the body image movement…provocative and necessary.” — Rebellious Magazine An award-winning psychology professor reveals how the cultural obsession with women's appearance is an epidemic that harms women's ability to get ahead and to live happy, meaningful lives, in this powerful, eye-opening work in the vein of Peggy Orenstein and Sheryl Sandberg. Today’s young women face a bewildering set of contradictions when it comes to beauty. They don’t want to be Barbie dolls but, like generations of women before them, are told they must look like them. They’re angry about the media’s treatment of women but hungrily consume the outlets that belittle them. They mock modern culture’s absurd beauty ideal and make videos exposing Photoshopping tricks, but feel pressured to emulate the same images they criticize by posing with a "skinny arm." They understand that what they see isn’t real but still download apps to airbrush their selfies. Yet these same young women are fierce fighters for the issues they care about. They are ready to fight back against their beauty-sick culture and create a different world for themselves, but they need a way forward. In Beauty Sick, Dr. Renee Engeln, whose TEDx talk on beauty sickness has received more than 250,000 views, reveals the shocking consequences of our obsession with girls’ appearance on their emotional and physical health and their wallets and ambitions, including depression, eating disorders, disruptions in cognitive processing, and lost money and time. Combining scientific studies with the voices of real women of all ages, she makes clear that to truly fulfill their potential, we must break free from cultural forces that feed destructive desires, attitudes, and words—from fat-shaming to denigrating commentary about other women. She provides inspiration and workable solutions to help girls and women overcome negative attitudes and embrace their whole selves, to transform their lives, claim the futures they deserve, and, ultimately, change their world.

Consumptive Chic

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350009407
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Consumptive Chic by : Carolyn A. Day

Download or read book Consumptive Chic written by Carolyn A. Day and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular 'moment' in which perceptions of the consumptive disease became inextricably tied to contemporary concepts of beauty, playing out in the clothing fashions of the day. With the ravages of the illness widely regarded as conferring beauty on the sufferer, it became commonplace to regard tuberculosis as a positive affliction, one to be emulated in both beauty practices and dress. While medical writers of the time believed that the fashionable way of life of many women actually rendered them susceptible to the disease, Carolyn A. Day investigates the deliberate and widespread flouting of admonitions against these fashion practices in the pursuit of beauty. Through an exploration of contemporary social trends and medical advice revealed in medical writing, literature and personal papers, Consumptive Chic uncovers the intimate relationship between fashionable women's clothing, and medical understandings of the illness. Illustrated with over 40 full color fashion plates, caricatures, medical images, and photographs of original garments, this is a compelling story of the intimate relationship between the body, beauty, and disease - and the rise of 'tubercular chic'.

The Sense of Beauty

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Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412838900
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)

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Book Synopsis The Sense of Beauty by : George Santayana

Download or read book The Sense of Beauty written by George Santayana and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the introduction to this new edition, John McCormick, reminds us that The Sense of Beauty is the first work in aesthetics written in the United States. Santayana was versed in the history of his subject, from Plato and Aristotle to Schopenhauer and Taine in the nineteenth century. Santayana took as his task a complete rethinking of the idea that beauty is embedded in objects. Rather, beauty is an emotion, a value, and a sense of the good. In this aesthetics was unlike ethics: not a correction of evil or pursuit of the virtuous. Rather it is a pleasure that residues in the sense of self. The work is divided into chapters on the materials of beauty, form, and expression. A good many of Santayana's later works are presaged by this early effort. And this volume also anticipates the development of art as a movement as well as a value apart from other aspects of life.

Symptoms of Culture

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415918602
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (186 download)

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Book Synopsis Symptoms of Culture by : Marjorie B. Garber

Download or read book Symptoms of Culture written by Marjorie B. Garber and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The symptoms of culture are the anxieties that underlie modern life: the instability of gender roles, the mysteries of female sexuality, the enigma of authority, the desire for greatness in ourselves and our heroes. From concern over fake orgasms to our worries about Great Books reading lists, from wanting God on our side at sports contests to wanting Shakespeare on our side whenever we want to sound important, we are a walking case of symptoms. Whatever the modern illness may be, the doctor locates the symptoms in a box of Jello or in Charlotte's marvelous web, on the football field or in the bedroom, in our great Mr. Shakespeare, in our classroom or the courtroom, or in a sneeze.

The Big Book of Symptoms

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ISBN 13 : 9781581108408
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis The Big Book of Symptoms by : Steven P. Shelov

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Symptoms

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Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 9780553569896
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (698 download)

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Book Synopsis Symptoms by : Prevention Magazine Editors

Download or read book Symptoms written by Prevention Magazine Editors and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1996-02-01 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the advice of leading medical practitioners, this comprehensive, A-to-Z reference guide from the editors of Prevention Magazine Health Books decodes hundreds of symptoms--from ankle swelling to dizziness, insomnia to rashes, seeing spots to taste loss. This book offers a variety of treatments as well as advice on when to contact a doctor.

Monster/Beauty

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520221141
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Monster/Beauty by : Joanna Frueh

Download or read book Monster/Beauty written by Joanna Frueh and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-02-19 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is as seductive as the phenomenon that it explores. With courage, love, and joy, Frueh crosses into unexplored terrains of beauty and pleasure, where she finds a grotesquely captivating creature: Monster/Beauty. By illuminating her journey with thoughtful insight and engaging prose, she encourages readers to join her in her quest to articulate fresh ways of thinking about the aesthetic and the erotic and of theorizing the flux of lived experience." —John Alan Farmer, senior editor of Art Journal "Monster/Beauty is a daringly provocative experiment in personal and erotic writing and an important book for anyone interested in breaking normative codes of beauty, pedagogy, and authorial methodology. In a richly self-revealing text, Frueh proposes nothing less than a Rabellaisian re-ordering of aesthetic embodiments within social relations." —Mira Schor, author of Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture "Giving new meaning to "embodied writing," this book goes farther than any other toward getting the body into the text. Joanna Frueh is a performance artist first-she is also an art historian, a singer, a poet, a bodybuilder, a professor, an academic celebrity of modest fame, but her performances collapse these distinctions. Frueh's intensely personal, intensely physical prose brings an aura of presence to the book that rivals the effect she achieves on stage." —Robyn Warhol, co-editor of Feminisms "This book is monstrous--full of gorgeous hypermuscular women, step-mothers, and vampires; full of ravishing muscular sex, classroom erotics, splendid aging. It is a performance in which Frueh explores and celebrates her body, its powers and beauties, and those of her friends and lovers." —Alphonso Lingis, author of Excesses, Abuses, and Dangerous Emotions "A welcome voice in contemporary feminist theory, Frueh's Monster/Beauty reminds us of the pleasures of thinking, teaching and creating in wholly embodied, sensual and passionate acts. Frueh poetically enacts the self as an aesthetic/erotic project, affirming the many different and beautiful selves we can become. It is a joy to read." —Marsha Meskimmon, author of We Weren't Modern Enough: Women Artists and the Limits of German Modernism "Joanna Frueh is a hero. I sleep better knowing she's out there writing and thinking." —Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours

The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty

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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393352307
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Book Synopsis The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty by : Amanda Filipacchi

Download or read book The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty written by Amanda Filipacchi and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sure comic touch . . . smart and sweet . . . a tribute to the pleasures of friendship." —The New Yorker In the heart of New York City, a group of artistic friends struggles with society's standards of beauty. At the center are Barb and Lily, two women at opposite ends of the beauty spectrum, but with the same problem: each fears she will never find a love that can overcome her looks. Barb, a stunningly beautiful costume designer, makes herself ugly in hopes of finding true love. Meanwhile, her friend Lily, a brilliantly talented but plain-looking musician, goes to fantastic lengths to attract the man who has rejected her—with results that are as touching as they are transformative. To complicate matters, Barb and Lily discover that they may have a murderer in their midst, that Barb’s calm disposition is more dangerously provocative than her beauty ever was, and that Lily's musical talents are more powerful than anyone could have imagined. Part literary whodunit, part surrealist farce, The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a smart, modern-day fairy tale. With biting wit and offbeat charm, Amanda Filipacchi illuminates the labyrinthine relationship between beauty, desire, and identity, asking at every turn: what does it truly mean to allow oneself to be seen?

Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300093049
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages by : Umberto Eco

Download or read book Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages written by Umberto Eco and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this authoritative, lively book, the celebrated Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco presents a learned summary of medieval aesthetic ideas. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism, Eco explores the relationship that existed between the aesthetic theories and the artistic experience and practice of medieval culture. "[A] delightful study. . . . [Eco's] remarkably lucid and readable essay is full of contemporary relevance and informed by the energies of a man in love with his subject." --Robert Taylor, Boston Globe "The book lays out so many exciting ideas and interesting facts that readers will find it gripping." --Washington Post Book World "A lively introduction to the subject." --Michael Camille, The Burlington Magazine "If you want to become acquainted with medieval aesthetics, you will not find a more scrupulously researched, better written (or better translated), intelligent and illuminating introduction than Eco's short volume." --D. C. Barrett, Art Monthly

Beauty and Art

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192801600
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Book Synopsis Beauty and Art by : Elizabeth Prettejohn

Download or read book Beauty and Art written by Elizabeth Prettejohn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we mean when we call a work of art `beautiful`? How do perceptions of beauty change with the passage of time? Elizabeth Prettejohn explores these crucial questions, showing the vital relationship between our changing notions of beauty and specific works of art. She charts the story of western art, from eighteenth-century Germany to the late 20th century, from Kauffman to Whistler, Ingres to Rossetti, Cézanne to Jackson Pollock.

Technology as Symptom and Dream

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134985495
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Book Synopsis Technology as Symptom and Dream by : Robert Romanyshyn

Download or read book Technology as Symptom and Dream written by Robert Romanyshyn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of linear perspective in the 15th century represented a radical transformation in the European's sense of the world, the body and the self. Robert Romanyshyn's latest book examines the claim that the development of linear perspective vision was and is indispensable to the emergence of our technological world. It does so by telling the story of how an artistic technique has become a cultural habit of mind.

Of the Beauty of Women, Dialogue

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Total Pages : 216 pages
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Book Synopsis Of the Beauty of Women, Dialogue by : Agnolo Firenzuola

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Beholding Beauty

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004435905
Total Pages : 717 pages
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Book Synopsis Beholding Beauty by : Domenico Ingenito

Download or read book Beholding Beauty written by Domenico Ingenito and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry, Domenico Ingenito explores the unstudied connections between eroticism, spirituality, and politics in the lyric poetry of 13th-century literary master Sa‘di Shirazi.

Pretty Modern

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822348012
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis Pretty Modern by : Alexander Edmonds

Download or read book Pretty Modern written by Alexander Edmonds and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-13 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ethnographic account of Brazils emergence as a global leader in plastic surgery takes readers from Ipanema socialite circles to telenovela studios to the packed waiting rooms of public hospitals offering free cosmetic surgery.

Symptoms

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Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553568132
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)

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Book Synopsis Symptoms by : Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D.

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