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Uncontrollable Beauty

Author : David Shapiro
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621531112
Total Pages : 999 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Uncontrollable Beauty written by David Shapiro and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 999 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this acclaimed art anthology, a prestigious group of artists, critics, and literati offer their incisive reflections on the questions of beauty, past, present, and future, and how it has become a domain of multiple perspectives. Here is Meyer Schapiro’s skeptical argument on perfection . . . contributions from artists as profound as Louise Bourgeois and Agnes Martin . . . and reflections of critics, curators, and philosophers on the problems of beauty and relativism. Readers will find fascinating insights from such art theorists and critics as Dave Hickey, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Donald Kuspit, Carter Ratcliff, and dozens more.

The Retrieval of the Beautiful

Author : Galen A. Johnson
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810125641
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Retrieval of the Beautiful written by Galen A. Johnson and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-31 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this elegant new study Galen Johnson retrieves the concept of the beautiful through the framework of Merleau-Ponty’s aesthetics. Although Merleau-Ponty seldom spoke directly of beauty, his philosophy is essentially about the beautiful. In Johnson’s formulation, the ontology of Flesh as element and the ontology of the Beautiful as elemental are folded together, for Desire, Love, and Beauty are part of the fabric of the world’s element, Flesh itself, the term at which Merleau-Ponty arrived to replace Substance, Matter, or Life as the name of Being. Merleau-Ponty’s Eye and Mind is at the core of the book, so Johnson engages, as Merleau-Ponty did, the writings and visual work of Paul Cézanne, Auguste Rodin, and Paul Klee, as well as Rilke’s commentary on Cézanne and Rodin. From these widely varying aesthetics emerge the fundamental themes of the retrieval of the beautiful: desire, repetition, difference, rhythm, and the sublime. The third part of Johnson’s book takes each of these up in turn, bringing Merleau-Ponty’s aesthetic thinking into dialogue with classical philosophy as well as Sartre, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Deleuze. Johnson concludes his final chapter with a direct dialogue with Kant and Merleau-Ponty, and also Lyotard, on the subject of the beautiful and the sublime. As we experience with Rodin’s Balzac, beauty and the sublime blend into one another when the beautiful grows powerful, majestic, mysterious, and transcendent.

Beauty Unlimited

Author : Peg Zeglin Brand
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253006422
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Beauty Unlimited written by Peg Zeglin Brand and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasizing the human body in all of its forms, Beauty Unlimited expands the boundaries of what is meant by beauty both geographically and aesthetically. Peg Zeglin Brand and an international group of contributors interrogate the body and the meaning of physical beauty in this multidisciplinary volume. This striking and provocative book explores the history of bodily beautification; the physicality of socially or culturally determined choices of beautification; the interplay of gender, race, class, age, sexuality, and ethnicity within and on the body; and the aesthetic meaning of the concept of beauty in an increasingly globalized world.

Beauty and Art

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

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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: Beautifully illustrated with 100 photographs--60 in full color--"Beauty & Art" concludes with a challenging question for the future: Why should we care about beauty in the 21st century?

The Revival of Beauty

Author : Catherine Wesselinoff
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000933903
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Revival of Beauty written by Catherine Wesselinoff and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides original descriptive accounts of two schools of thought in the philosophy of beauty: the 20th-century “Anti-Aesthetic” movement and the 21st-century “Beauty Revival” movement. It also includes a positive defence of beauty as a lived experience extrapolated from Beauty-Revival position. Beauty was traditionally understood in the broadest sense as a notion that engages our sense perception and embraces everything evoked by that perception, including mental products and affective states. This book constructs and places in parallel with one another the Anti-Aesthetic and Beauty-Revival movements. In the author’s view, Anti-Aestheticism is devoted to a decisive negation of beauty—denying its importance as a philosophical notion and its significance as a lived experience. It suggests that beauty is a merely sensual experience, which can be used, at best, as a distraction from justice and, at worst, as an instrument of evil. Alternatively, the Beauty-Revival movement advances arguments for beauty as an experience that extends primarily to sensual experience, but which also calls forth mental products and cognitive and affective states evoked by that experience. After reconstructing these two positions, the author elaborates on the notion of beauty as a lived experience through three key moments which occur in the process of our experiencing beautiful objects. These moments are (a) the conditions that constitute an experience of beauty, (b) the attitudinal features most likely to lead to the experience of beauty, and (c) the results of the experience of beauty. The Revival of Beauty will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in aesthetics, history of philosophy, and art history.

A History of Human Beauty

Author : Arthur Marwick
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826439454
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book A History of Human Beauty written by Arthur Marwick and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-06-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Cleopatra's nose had been half an inch longer, neither Caesar nor Mark Antony would have fallen in love with her. It: A History of Human Beauty treats outstanding physical attractiveness as a quality or possession, comparable to power, intelligence, strength, wealth, education or family, that had a marked effect on history. Beauty in men and women opened opportunities to its possessors not available to the ordinary looking or ugly. While in the past women have had to use the lure of sex to achieve power or wealth, epitomised by royal mistresses or the Grandes Horizontales of the nineteenth century, modern film stars (male and female) can acquire great wealth simply by the use of their images, while attractiveness on television is an essential modern qualification for power, as shown by Ronald Reagan and Tony Blair.

Reaffirming the Importance of Beauty

Author : Sonja Zuba
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527518655
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Reaffirming the Importance of Beauty written by Sonja Zuba and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that beauty challenges us to find meaning in its object, to make critical comparisons, and to examine our own lives and emotions in the light of what we find. The book examines the importance of beauty not only in terms of art and aesthetics, but also within the context of the current post-religious age. It engages with the philosophical works of Roger Scruton and William Desmond, and endorses and addresses many important discussions surrounding art and beauty found in the works of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. It also takes seriously the role of poetry and painting to explore the theme that runs through this research: the idea that beauty is rationally found. Meditations on the art of Manet, Van Gogh, Delacroix, Rembrandt, and other artists, together with the voices of several poets, show us that beauty cannot be reduced to aesthetics only. Irreducible to philosophy, religion, or aesthetics, the notion of beauty is deeply examined in all its forms and spiritual meaning.

A Place for Beauty in the Therapeutic Encounter

Author : Dorothy Hamilton
Publisher : Phoenix Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1912567806
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book A Place for Beauty in the Therapeutic Encounter written by Dorothy Hamilton and published by Phoenix Publishing House. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Place for Beauty in the Therapeutic Encounter is written for all psychotherapists, counsellors, and psychologists who practise under the broad banner of psychoanalytic thinking. It is also for anyone who loves beauty and wants to think more about its place in the mind.

Beauty as Action

Author : Lisa Z. Lindahl
Publisher : Bublish, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0998746703
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Beauty as Action written by Lisa Z. Lindahl and published by Bublish, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In the Beauty of Holiness

Author : David Lyle Jeffrey
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802874703
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis In the Beauty of Holiness by : David Lyle Jeffrey

Download or read book In the Beauty of Holiness written by David Lyle Jeffrey and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art and worship to 1500. Beauty and holiness as terms of art -- The paradoxical beauty of the cross -- Beauty and proportion in the sanctuary -- The beauty of light -- The beauty of holiness alfresco -- Beauty on the altar -- Art and the Bible after 1500. Beauty, power, and doctrine -- Beauty and the eye of the beholder -- Romantic religion and the sublime -- Art after belief -- Art against belief -- Return of the transcendentals

Get Real! Fighting the Mythic Woman Finding Your Authentic Self

Author : Ananya S. Rajan
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557530776
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book Get Real! Fighting the Mythic Woman Finding Your Authentic Self written by Ananya S. Rajan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get Real! is a book for all women, from all walks of life. It's basic premise is that women are more than just the roles they play. However the myths and messages passed on to us by our families, the institutions we are involved in, and society often restrict us from thinking for ourselves, finding out who we are, and, in turn, living a more fulfilling life. By maintaining certain standards for women, society continues to promote the perfect woman, otherwise known as the Mythic Woman and unknowingly we follow the Mythic Woman pattern because we know nothing else.This book offers a new way to look at the lives we live and the messages we follow. It also provides insightful exercises to help women start their journey toward discovering their authentic self.

Other Country

Author : James Perrin Warren
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 081650055X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Other Country written by James Perrin Warren and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 7. Long Lines and Earth Art -- 8. Mapping Home Ground -- 9. Soundscapes and the Resonance of Place -- Epilogue: Another Geography -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Review of Marketing Research

Author : Naresh Malhotra
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351551027
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Review of Marketing Research written by Naresh Malhotra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Visualities

Author : Denise K. Cummings
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 162895146X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Visualities written by Denise K. Cummings and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, works by American Indian artists and filmmakers such as Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Edgar Heap of Birds, Sherman Alexie, Shelley Niro, and Chris Eyre have illustrated the importance of visual culture as a means to mediate identity in contemporary Native America. This insightful collection of essays explores how identity is created and communicated through Native film-, video-, and art-making; what role these practices play in contemporary cultural revitalization; and how indigenous creators revisit media pasts and resignify dominant discourses through their work. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Visualities: Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art draws on American Indian Studies, American Studies, Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Women’s Studies, and Postcolonial Studies. Among the artists examined are Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, Eric Gansworth, Melanie Printup Hope, Jolene Rickard, and George Longfish. Films analyzed include Imprint, It Starts with a Whisper, Mohawk Girls, Skins, The Business of Fancydancing, and a selection of Native Latin films.

Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588-1617

Author : Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317071700
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588-1617 written by Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588-1617 is the first book to consider railing plays and pamphlets as participating in a coherent literary movement that dominated much of the English literary landscape during the late Elizabethan/early Jacobean period. Author Prendergast considers how these crisis-ridden texts on religious, gender, and aesthetic controversies were encouraged and supported by the emergence of the professional theater and print pamphlets. She argues that railing texts by Shakespeare, Nashe, Jonson, Jane Anger and others became sites for articulating anxious emotions-including fears about the stability of England after the death of Queen Elizabeth and the increasing factional splits between Protestant groups. But, given that railings about religious and political matters often led to censorship or even death, most railing writers chose to circumvent such possible repercussions by railing against unconventional gender identity, perverse sexual proclivities, and controversial aesthetics. In the process, Prendergast argues, railers shaped an anti-aesthetics that was itself dependent on the very expressions of perverse gender and sexuality that they discursively condemned, an aesthetics that created a conceptual third space in which bitter enemies-male or female, conformist or nonconformist-could bond by engaging in collaborative experiments with dialogical invective. By considering a literary mode of articulation that vehemently counters dominant literary discourse, this book changes the way that we look at late Elizabethan and early Jacobean literature, as it associates works that have been studied in isolation from each other with a larger, coherent literary movement.

Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts

Author : Jeremy Begbie
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334056942
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts written by Jeremy Begbie and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the arts witness to the transcendence of the Christian God? It is widely believed that there is something transcendent about the arts, that they can awaken a profound sense of awe, wonder, and mystery, of something “beyond” this world. Many argue that this opens up fruitful opportunities for conversation with those who may have no use for conventional forms of Christianity. Jeremy Begbie—a leading voice on theology and the arts—in this book employs a biblical, trinitarian imagination to show how Christian involvement in the arts can (and should) be shaped by a vision of God’s transcendence revealed in the person of Jesus Christ. After critiquing some current writing on the subject, he goes on to offer rich resources to help readers engage constructively with the contemporary cultural moment even as they bear witness to the otherness and uncontainability of the triune God of love.

Locating Values in Literature

Author : Corina-Mihaela Beleaua
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793609411
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Locating Values in Literature written by Corina-Mihaela Beleaua and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Locating Values in Literature: Goodness, Beauty, and Truth discusses the relevance of literature in the current educational process, stating that regardless of the level of study, literature provides students with the necessary skills to address real-world situations. Corina-Mihaela Beleaua posits that a curriculum that includes literature has a multitude of benefits for the mental and ethical development of students, defending the relevance of the three ancient values of goodness, beauty, and truth. Beleaua argues that literature is a significant tool for endorsing these transcendentals and actualizing their positive potentials as humanistic and moral values, acting as a symbolic manifestation of moral values that will impact readers outside of the scope of the literature itself. Scholars of literature, philosophy, and education will find this book particularly useful.