Passing Strange and Wonderful Aesthetics Nature And Culture.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
Island Press,
2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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