Susan L. Feagin

Global Theories of the Arts and Aesthetics

Herausgegeben:Feagin, Susan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays focuses on theories and practices in relation to the arts around the globe - particularly those that have been ignored or marginalized by mainstream aesthetics and philosophy of art, and explains specific ways that the concepts of the aesthetic and of the arts might be enriched and enhanced.
Explores a variety of art forms, including music, architecture, and the visual arts, with numerous specific examples
Discusses a variety of cultural traditions, including the gamelan in Central Java, gong music of the central Vietnamese highlands, contemporary Chinese visual arts, Balinese aesthetics, Islamic aesthetics
Contains clear explanations of key ideas in specific non-Western art theories and practices
Argues that the participation in artistic practices and the experience of art are deeply embedded in one' s sense of self, in moral action, and in how one negotiates one's way through the world

Produktdetails

• Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 177mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 280g
• ISBN-13: 9781405173551
• ISBN-10: 1405173556
• Artikelnr.: 23835644

Autorenporträt

Susan L. Feagin is Visiting Research Professor of Philosophy at Temple University and the editor of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. She is the author of Reading with Feeling: The Aesthetics of Appreciation (Cornell, 1996) and co-editor, with Patrick Maynard, of Aesthetics (Oxford, 1997). She writes generally on philosophy of the visual arts, emotions and art, and philosophy of literature.

Inhaltsangabe

I Introduction
Susan L. Feagin . II The Sounding of theWorld: Aesthetic Reflections on Traditional Gong Music of Vietnam
Philip Alperson
Nguye n Ch1Be¿n
and to Ngoc Thanh. III Balinese Aesthetics
Stephen Davies. IV Aesthetic and Spiritual Correlations in Javanese Gamelan Music
Susan PrattWalton. V An Alchemy of Emotion: Rasa and Aesthetic Breakthroughs Kathleen Marie Higgins. VI Asian Ars Erotica and the Question of Sexual Aesthetics
Richard Shusterman. VII Islamic Aesthetics: An AlternativeWay to Knowledge
Jale Nejdet Erzen. VIII Shikinen Sengu and the Ontology of Architecture in Japan
Dominic Mciver Lopes. IX The Moral Dimension of Japanese Aesthetics
Yuriko Saito. X The Ethics of Confucian Artistry
Eric C. Mullis. XI Subversive Strategies in Chinese Avant-Garde Art
Mary BittnerWiseman. XII Embodied Meanings
Isotypes
and Aesthetical Ideas
Arthur C. Danto. XIII Art and Globalization: Then and Now
Noel Carroll