Extreme Beauty

by Joanne Cutting-Gray

Book Overview

What do we mean when we speak of "beauty"? What do we experience? Beauty is no longer the human experience of the harmonious object; today an aesthetics of difference has revolutionised our ways of seeing the beautiful. Now, we live in a time of "extreme beauty." Extreme Beauty explores art, literature, politics, and philosophy in order to illuminate how the concept and experience of beauty has changed. The essays range from Hegel and Modernism to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826460100
• ISBN13: 9780826460103
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Athlone Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"