Beauty unlimited / edited by Peg Zeglin Brand ; foreword by Carolyn Korsmeyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brand, Peggy Zeglin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beauty, Personal.

Human body--Social aspects.

Human body.

Body image.

Physical Description:

xv, 427 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012]

Summary:

Emphasizing the Human Body in all of its forms, Beauty Unlimited expands the boundaries of what is meant by beauty both aesthetically and geographically. 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Revising the Concept of Beauty: Laying the Groundwork

1 Arthur Danto and the Problem of Beauty / Noël Carroll Carroll, Noël 29

2 Savages, Wild Men, Monstrous Races: The Social Construction of Race in the Early Modem Era / Gregory Velazco Y Trianosky Trianosky, Gregory Velazco Y 45

3 Beauty's Relational Labor / Monique Roelofs Roelofs, Monique 72

4 Queer Beauty: Winckelmann and Kant on the Vicissitudes of the Ideal / Whitney Davis Davis, Whitney 96

5 Worldwide Women / Eleanor Heartney Heartney, Eleanor 126

Part 2 Standards of Beauty

6 Jenny Saville Remakes the Female Nude: Feminist Reflections on the State of the Art / Diana Tietjens Meyers Meyers, Diana Tietjens 137

7 Indigenous Beauty / Phoebe M. Farris Farris, Phoebe M. 162

8 Is Medical Aesthetics Really Medical? / Mary Devereaux Devereaux, Mary 175

9 The Bronze Age Revisited: The Aesthetics of Sun Tanning / Jo Ellen Jacobs Jacobs, Jo Ellen 192

10 ¿Tienes Culo? How to Look at Vida Guerra / Karina L. Céspedes-Cortes Céspedes-Cortes, Karina L., Paul C. Taylor Taylor, Paul C. 218

11 Beauty between Disability and Gender: Frida Kahlo in Paper Dolls / Fedwa Malti-Douglas Malti-Douglas, Fedwa 243

Part 3 The Body in Performance

12 Beauty, Youth, and the Balinese Legong Dance / Stephen Davies Davies, Stephen 259

13 Bollywood and the Feminine: Hinduism and Images of Womanhood / Jane Duran Duran, Jane 280

14 Seductive Shift: A Review of The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha / Valerie Sullivan Fuchs Fuchs, Valerie Sullivan 293

15 Feminist Art, Content, and Beauty / Keith Lehrer Lehrer, Keith 297

16 ORLAN Revisited: Disembodied Virtual Hybrid Beauty / Peg Zeglin Brand Brand, Peg Zeglin 306

Part 4 Beauty and the State

17 Beauty Wars: The Struggle over Female Modesty in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa / Allen Douglas Douglas, Allen, Fedwa Malti-Douglas Malti-Douglas, Fedwa 343

18 Orientalism Inside/Out: The Art of Soody Sharifi / Cynthia Freeland Freeland, Cynthia 347

19 Beauty and the State: Female Bodies as State Apparatus and Recent Beauty Discourses in China / Eva Kit Wah Man Man, Eva Kit Wah 368

20 Gendered Bodies in Contemporary Chinese Art / Mary Bittner Wiseman Wiseman, Mary Bittner 385.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253006424

0253006422

9780253006493

025300649X

9780253006530

0253006538

OCLC:

760973486