Beauty and Monstrosity in Art and Culture

ISBN-13: 9781032355825 / Twarda / 2024 / 264 str.

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This book takes a new look at an old question: what is the relationship between beauty and monstrosity? How has the notion of beauty transformed through the years and how does it coincide with monstrous ontologies?

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INTRODUCTION  1 PRELUDE  “The Garden: A Topological View”  2 THE ANCIENT HUMAN: Retracing the Past  2a. “An Exquisite Appearance, a Beautiful Mind? Thinking of Plato’s Charmides in Plutarch’s Life of Demetrius”  2b. “A Beauty’s Letter and the Beasts: Ariadne’s Heroidian Epistle (Ov. Her. 10)”  2c. “Infernal Women: Polysemic Winged Figures in Etruscan Art.”  3 ON OTHERNESS: A New Kind of Body  3a. “Bodies of Hybridity: Animal, Cyborg, and the Supernatural Becoming”  3b. “Teratological Machine in the Female Body: the “Hottentot Venus” as Beauty-and-the-Beast From a Decolonial Feminist Perspective”  3c. “Female Body, Disgust, and the Erotic Redefined: The Dialectic Mindshaping”  4 HYBRIDITIES: New Genres and Contexts  4a. “Anthropogarde of Stage, Cult, and the Popular: Co-ritus, Labyrinths, Actions”  4b. “The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Africanfuturist fiction”  4c. “Beauties and Beasts; A Personal Lens to the Backstage of Story-creation”  5 PERFORMING THE HUMAN: Metamorphosis in Art  5a. “WHEN UGLINESS IS TURNED INTO ORGANS OF SEDUCTION”  5b. “ReWired, ReMixed, and ReImagined: An Interview with Stelarc”  6 TECHNOLOGY VS CANONIZATION: Alternative Ontologies and Crossing Boundaries  6a. “Creating Life: An Embryo Assembly Line”  6b. “Art of the AIs, By the AIs, For the Art’s Sake.”  6c. “Robots—Signs of Disruption”  7 SPATIAL ONTOLOGIES: Space and Human Transformation  7a. “Architectural Representation as a Body without Organs”  7b. “Exploring the Urban Jungle: Making Space for Wildness in Cities”  8 THE END OF THE HUMAN: Death and Reflections into Morbidity  8a. “The Aesthetics of Hollowed Experience: Benjamin, Ensor, James”  8b. “Desiring the Zombie”  8c. “Medusa, Monstrous Beauty, and Neuroaesthetics”  9 CODA  “Truth, Beauty, and Hungry Monsters”  10 UN-ENDING  “Portrait of a Transforming Human”

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Chara Kokkiou is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Tulane University, Department of Philosophy, with interdisciplinary academic interests in ancient philosophy, bioethics, and classics and a primary research focus on compassion.

 

Angeliki Malakasioti is a multidisciplinary artist and academic living in Greece. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University.