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Beauty / James Kirwan
By: Kirwan, James
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BookPublisher: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 1999Description: x, 182 p. 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0719055717; 0719055725 .Subject(s): AestheticsDDC classification: 700.1
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 700.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00088995 |
Total holds: 0
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
James Kirwan provides both a lucid and concise history of the concept of beauty as a distinct aesthetic experience (marginalized by the rise of philosophical aesthetics in the twentieth century), and offers a new and persuasive answer to the age-old question of what beauty is; an answer that, placing the responsibility for beauty firmly with the eye of the beholder, explains what it is in this "eye" that gives rise to beauty.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. viii)
- 1 Impenetrable beauty (p. 1)
- 2 The eye of the beholder (p. 15)
- 3 Beauty/God (p. 27)
- 4 Impossible desire (p. 40)
- 5 Beauty as cognition (p. 51)
- 6 Blood and light (p. 69)
- 7 The heavenly and vulgar Venus (p. 77)
- 8 Aesthetics (in parenthesis) (p. 93)
- 9 Beyond nothing (p. 119)
- Notes (p. 125)
- References (p. 166)
- Index (p. 177)