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Artistic Visions and the Promise of Beauty: Cross-Cultural Perspectives - eBook

Artistic Visions and the Promise of Beauty: Cross-Cultural Perspectives – eBook

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  • 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

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.

Shakti Maira

Sonia Sikka

Artistic Visions and the Promise of Beauty (PDF) examines the motives behind rejections of beauty regularly found within modern art practice, where much critically acclaimed art is deliberately alienating and ugly. It shows the nature and value of beauty, asking whether beauty still has a future in art and what part it can play in our lives generally. The volume discusses the possible “end of art,” what art is, and the association between art and beauty beyond their traditionally Western horizons to include viewpoints from Asia.

The individual chapters address several interrelated issues, including art, beauty, and the sacred; beauty as a source of joy and consolation; beauty and the human form; the role of curatorial practice in defining art; beauty as a bridge between the natural and the human; order and creativity; and the distinction between art and craft. The volume provides a valuable addition to cross-cultural dialogue and, in particular, to the scarce literature on art and beauty in a comparative context. It shows the relevance of the rich custom of Asian aesthetics and the energetic practices of contemporary art in Asia to Western discussions about the prospect of art and the role of beauty.

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