Black is beautiful : a philosophy of black aesthetics / Paul C. Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Paul C. (Paul Christopher), 1967- author.

Series:

Foundations of the philosophy of the arts.

THEi Wiley ebooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, Black.

African American aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 pages)

Place of Publication:

Hoboken : Wiley, 2016.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

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Summary:

Black is Beautiful identifies and explores the most significant philosophical issues that emerge from the aesthetic dimensions of black life, providing a long-overdue synthesis and the first extended philosophical treatment of this crucial subject. * The first extended philosophical treatment of an important subject that has been almost entirely neglected by philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of art * Takes an important step in assembling black aesthetics as an object of philosophical study * Unites two areas of scholarship for the first time - philosophical aesthetics and black cultural theory, dissolving the dilemma of either studying philosophy, or studying black expressive culture * Brings a wide range of fields into conversation with one another- from visual culture studies and art history to analytic philosophy to musicology - producing mutually illuminating approaches that challenge some of the basic suppositions of each * Well-balanced, up-to-date, and beautifully written as well as inventive and insightful * Winner of The American Society of Aesthetics Outstanding Monograph Prize 2017

Contents:

Assembly, not birth

Inquiry and assembly

On blackness

On the black aesthetic tradition

Black aesthetics as/and philosophy.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118328699

1118328698

9781405150637

1405150637

9781118328675

1118328671

OCLC:

937062438