Passing Strange and Wonderful Aesthetics Nature And Culture.

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tuan, Yi-Fu
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : Island Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Aesthetics, Comparative.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Environmental ethics.
Esthétique comparée.
Nature (Esthétique)
Éthique de l'environnement.
Aesthetics, Comparative
Environmental ethics
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • CONTENTS
  • Prologue: Light and Shadows
  • PART I: AESTHETICS, NATURE, AND CULTURE
  • Chapter 1. The Aesthetic in Life and Culture
  • 2. The Development of the Aesthetic Impulse
  • PART II: SENSORY DELIGHTS
  • 3. Pleasures of the Proximate Senses
  • 4. Voices, Sounds, and Heavenly Music
  • 5. Visual Delight and Splendor
  • PART III: A CULTURAL-AESTHETIC SPECTRUM
  • 6. Australian Aborigines, the Chinese, and Medieval Europeans
  • 7. American Place and Scene
  • PART IV: SYNTHESIS OF SPACE AND THE STATE
  • 8. Synesthesia, Metaphor, and Symbolic Space
  • 9. Ritual and the Aesthetic-Moral State
  • The Chinese Aesthetic-Moral State: T'ang Empire
  • Renaissance Venice as an Aesthetic-Moral State
  • France: The Sun King's Aesthetic-Moral State
  • America the Beautiful and the Moral
  • PART V: AESTHETICS AND MORALITY
  • 10. Good and Beautiful
  • Epilogue: Shadows and Light
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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