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Author:   Peg Zeglin Brand ,  Eleanor Heartney ,  Carolyn Korsmeyer ,  Noël Carroll
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.612kg
ISBN:  

9780253006493

ISBN 10:   025300649
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   03 December 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Foreword: Carolyn Korsmeyer Introduction: Peg Zeglin Brand Part I. Revising the Concept of Beauty: Laying the Groundwork 1. Arthur Danto and the Problem of Beauty Noël Carroll 2. Savages, Wild Men, Monstrous Races: The Social Construction of Race in the Early Modern Era Gregory Velazco y Trianosky 3. Beauty's Relational Labor Monique Roelofs 4. Queer Beauty: Winckelmann and Kant on the Vicissitudes of the Ideal Whitney Davis 5. Worldwide Women Eleanor Heartney Part II. Standards of Beauty 6. Jenny Saville Remakes the Female Nude—Feminist Reflections on the State of the Art Diana Tietjens Meyers 7. Indigenous Beauty Phoebe M. Farris 8. Is Medical Aesthetics Really Medical? Mary Devereaux 9. The Bronze Age Revisited: The Aesthetics of Sun Tanning Jo Ellen Jacobs 10. ¿Tienes Culo? How to Look at Vida Guerra Karina Céspedes and Paul C. Taylor 11. Beauty between Disability and Gender: Frida Kahlo in Paper Dolls Fedwa Malti-Douglas Part III. The Body in Performance 12. Beauty, Youth, and the Balinese Legong Dance Stephen Davies 13. Bollywood and the Feminine: Hinduism and Images of Womanhood Jane Duran 14. Seductive Shift: A Review of ""The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha"" Valerie Sullivan Fuchs 15. Feminist Art, Content and Beauty Keith Lehrer 16. ORLAN Revisited: Disembodied Virtual Hybrid Beauty Peg Zeglin Brand Part IV. Beauty and the State 17. Beauty Wars: The Struggle over Female Modesty in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa Allen Douglas and Fedwa Malti-Douglas 18. Orientalism Inside/Out: The Art of Soody Sharifi Cynthia Freeland 19. Beauty and the State: Female Bodies as State Apparatus and Recent Beauty Discourses in China Eva Kit Wah Man 20. Gendered Bodies in Contemporary Chinese Art Mary Wiseman Contributors Index"

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<p> In such different contexts these authors dramatize the various ways that beauty can function in relation to personal desires, artistic values, and social authority. Here we can discover beauty not only as a quality and a value, but also as a project and a practice that drives our lives from both within and without--internal standards, external expectations, and ambivalence meeting in provocative disputation. --from the foreword by Carolyn Korsmeyer--from the foreword by Carolyn Korsmeyer

<p>In such different contexts these authors dramatize the various ways that beauty can function in relation to personal desires, artistic values, and social authority. Here we can discover beauty not only as a quality and a value, but also as a project and a practice that drives our lives from both within and without--internal standards, external expectations, and ambivalence meeting in provocative disputation.--from the foreword by Carolyn Korsmeyer

In such different contexts these authors dramatize the various ways that beauty can function in relation to personal desires, artistic values, and social authority. Here we can discover beauty not only as a quality and a value, but also as a project and a practice that drives our lives from both within and without internal standards, external expectations, and ambivalence meeting in provocative disputation. from the foreword by Carolyn Korsmeyer

The cultural, ethnic, and geographical diversity of the artistic practices is integral to the examination of the many beauties and provides the operating premise of the book. The diversity represented in this volume whether in discourse style or topic is not an add-on; instead, it is the organizing principle. The book is designed the way I wish more courses in philosophy were designed, with the idea that the history of philosophy is just one among many important sources of beauty's knowledge. -Journal Aesthetics and Art Criticism The title of the anthology reflects its worthy call to arms: let's move past traditional theories of beauty, move from a local to a global view, and engage in more (and different) dialogs on feminist perspectives on beauty. -Hypatia In such different contexts these authors dramatize the various ways that beauty can function in relation to personal desires, artistic values, and social authority. Here we can discover beauty not only as a quality and a value, but also as a project and a practice that drives our lives from both within and without-internal standards, external expectations, and ambivalence meeting in provocative disputation. -from the foreword by Carolyn Korsmeyer This collection meets a need for a feminist aesthetics text which bridges aesthetic theory, art and popular culture, and acknowledges the evolving character of standards of beauty and the many meanings of feminism around the globe. -Teaching Philosophy

Author Information

Peg Brand Weiser is Adjunct Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Arizona and Emerita Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis. She is editor of  Beauty Matters and (with Carolyn Korsmeyer) Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics, and author of numerous essays in feminist aesthetics dealing with women's art, creativity, beauty standards and sports. She served as the first Chair of the Feminist Caucus Committee of the American Society for Aesthetics and is the former First Lady of Indiana University (1994-2002).

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