Higgins, Kathleen M.
Artistic Visions and the Promise of Beauty
1. Introduction
Kathleen M. Higgins, Shakti Maira, Sonia Sikka
Part I. What Happened to Beauty?
2. The Hollowing of Art and the Call of Beauty
Shakti Maira
3. Iconoclasm and the Demise of Aesthetics
Anjolie Menon
4. Beauty: A Promise of Enduring Art
Ruth Lorand
5. Beauty, Religion and Tradition in Post-Nuclear Japanese Arts and Aesthetics
Mara Miller
Part II. Judging Beautiful Bodies
6. Western Theories of Beauty and Non-Western Peoples
Partha Mitter
7. Valli and Devasena
Alka Pande
8. Female Bodies in China: Literati Fantasies, Iron Girls and Olympics Hoopla
Eva Kit Wah Man
Part III. Beauty, Virtue and Happiness
9. Buddhism, Beauty and Virtue
David E. Cooper
10. Thinking Through an Embodied Confucian Aesthetics of Persons
Eric Mullis
11. Beauty and the Sense of Life
Kathleen M. Higgins
12. Dwelling with Beauty
Sonia Sikka
Part IV. Beauty and the Self
13. Artistic Creativity: Individual and the Community (Remarks on Tagore’s notion of the ‘Surplus’ in Man)
Sujata Miri
14. Letting Objects Speak: Beauty in the Japanese Artistic Tradition
Yuriko Saito
15. Perceiving Beauty, Recognizing Self
Yuriko Lochan
Part V. Beauty as Daily Practice
16. Art, Craft & Beauty – A Subjective Caste System
Laila Tyabji
17. The Beautiful in Bali
Stephen Davies
18. The ‘Aesthetic in Everyday Life’: An Exploration Through the Buddhist Concept of
Priyadarshi Patnaik
19. Daoist Aesthetics of the Everyday and the Fantastical
Sarah Mattice
Avainsanat: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Fine Arts, Cultural Studies
- Toimittaja
- Higgins, Kathleen M.
- Maira, Shakti
- Sikka, Sonia
- Julkaisija
- Springer
- Julkaisuvuosi
- 2017
- Kieli
- en
- Painos
- 1
- Sarja
- Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures
- Sivumäärä
- 6 sivua
- Kategoria
- Filosofia
- Tiedostomuoto
- E-kirja
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319438931
- Painetun ISBN
- 978-3-319-43891-7