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Beschreibung

An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'.

Beschreibung

An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'.

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum

17.08.2015
Abbildungen

XVIII, 292 p.
Herausgeber Jane Macnaughton

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum

17.08.2015
Abbildungen

XVIII, 292 p.
Herausgeber Jane Macnaughton
Verlag Palgrave Macmillan UK
Seitenzahl

292
Maße (L/B/H)

21,6/14/1,9 cm
Gewicht

508 g
Auflage

1st ed. 2015
Sprache

Englisch
ISBN

978-1-137-42673-4
Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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    Acknowledgements



    Notes on the contributors



    Introduction; David Fuller, Corinne Saunders, Jane Macnaughton



    PART I: MIND, BODY, SOUL



    1. Beautiful Ideas: The Visibility of Truth; Mark McIntosh



    2. Beauty, Virtue and Danger in Medieval English Romance; Corinne Saunders



    3.Bathing for Beauty in the Middle Ages; Elizabeth Archibald



    4. Posture is Beauty; Sander Gilman



    PART II: ART, IDEAS, IDEALS



    5. Beauty, Pain, and Violence: Through Lessing and Nietzsche to King Lear; David Fuller



    6. Beauty Writes Literary History: Revisiting the Myth of Bloomsbury; Patricia Waugh



    7. 'Raising Sparks'; An Interview with Michael Symmons Roberts



    8. 'More natural than nature, more artificial than art'; An Interview with David Bintley



    PART III: SURGERY, REPARATION, IMAGINATION



    9. 'Elegant' Surgery: The Beauty of Clinical Expertise; Jane Macnaughton



    10. Portraiture, Beauty, Pain; Ludmilla Jordanova



    11. War and Beauty: The Act of Unmasking in Pat Barker's Toby's Room and Louisa Young's My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You; Anne Whitehead



    PART IV: RESCUING BEAUTY



    12. Beauty in the Brain of the Beholder: Art, Neural Plasticity and Visual Pleasure; John Onians



    13. The Pendulum of Taste: Architecture and the Rise of a State Aesthetic; Simon Thurley



    14. Beauty and the Sacred; Roger Scruton



    Bibliography



    Index