Exploring the Critical Issues of Beauty / Edited by Gabrielle Simpson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simpson, Gabrielle, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beauty, Personal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Exploring the Critical Issues of Beauty offers a wide range of topics on concepts of Beauty from scholars, academics and researchers around the world.

Contents:

""Front Cover ""; ""Inside Cover ""; ""Advisory Board ""; ""ISBN ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Introduction: Gabrielle Simpson ""; ""Section 1 Too Beautiful to Bear? Empowering and Befouling Beauty ""; ""A Machiavellian Beauty: Denise Thwaites ""; ""Outlawed Beauty: Eva Bujalka ""; ""Section 2 Defining and Judging Beauty ""; ""Taste and Judgement: Robert Lumsden ""; ""Beauty and Artistic Value: Annelies Monsere and Bart Vandenabelle ""; ""Beauty: Madhu Kapoor ""; ""Section 3 Beauty Products: Of Bollywood, Street Art and the Meanings of Fashion Photography ""

""Female Indo-Mauritian Negotiation of Beauty and Bollywood TV Serials: Angela Ramsoondur-Mungur """"Relation of Cute/Kawaii Aesthetics and Beauty in Street Art Production: Ljiljana Radosevic ""; ""The Aesthetics of Boring Places in the Fashion Photography of Peter Lindbergh and Corinne Day: Ingeborg Thaanum Carlsen ""; ""Section 4 The Politics of Beauty ""; ""Beauty, Fashion and Celebrity in 2011: Gabrielle Simpson ""; ""Emotional Engagement in Fashion Design: Mal Burkinshaw and Linda Shearer ""; ""Section 5 Beauty and the Matrix of Domination ""; ""Professional Beauty: Ambrogia Cereda ""

""Electrolysis and Ethnicity: Kerry McElroy """"The Immanent Splendour of Soul: Timothy Allen Jackson ""; ""Section 6 Beauty in Culture and Community ""; ""Beauty in Mathematical and Socio-Cultural Domains: Causenge Cangin, Nuri Rosegg and John Bradburn ""; ""The Ethics of Authenticity and Contemporary Feminine Fashion: Mariette Julien ""; ""Promesse de Bonheur in Nowhere: Igal Bursztyn ""; ""The Event of Art: Christopher Hromas ""; ""Section 7 Searching for Beauty through Literature ""

""The Transcendentalist Experience of Beauty in 'The Artist of the Beautiful': Mariana Mussetta and Andrea Vartalitis """"Formal Structures of Literary Beauty in Daniel Alarcon's Short Fiction: W. Michelle Wang ""; ""Section 8 Sacralising Beauty ""; ""Divine Beauty in the Thbought of Ghazali: Hulya Alper ""; ""Beauty as Religion: Lena Nans ""; ""Back Cover ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-110-X

OCLC:

891397156

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848881105 DOI