Gender and Aesthetics : An Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780415266581 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 208 str.

Carolyn Korsmeyer

Opis

Feminist approaches to art are extremely influential and widely studied across a variety of disciplines, including art theory, cultural and visual studies, and philosophy. Feminism and Philosophy of Art is an introduction to the major theories and thinkers within art and aesthetics from a philosophical perspective, carefully introducing and examining the role that gender plays in forming ideas about art. It is ideal for anyone coming to the topic for the first time. Organised thematically, the book introduces in clear language the most important topics within feminist aesthetics: Why were there so few women painters? Art, pleasure and beauty Music, literature and painting The role of gender in taste and food What is art and who is an artist? Disgust and the sublime Each chapter discusses important topics and thinkers within art and examines the role gender plays in our understanding of them. These topics include creativity, genius and the appreciation of art, and thinkers from Plato, Kant, and Hume to Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva. Also included in the book are illustrations from Gaugin and Hogarth to Cindy Sherman and Nancy Spero to clarify and help introduce often difficult co

Recenzje

‘remarkably accessible, engaging, and very readable: it assumes little specialist philosophical knowledge. Gender and Aesthetics is very clearly written, and presents concise lucid explanations of several complex theoretical and philosophical positions.’ - The British Journal of Aesthetics

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 ARTISTS AND ART; Chapter 2 AESTHETIC PLEASURES; Chapter 3 AMATEURS AND PROFESSIONALS; Chapter 4 DEEP GENDER; Chapter 5 WHAT IS ART?; Chapter 6 DIFFICULT PLEASURES; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;

O autorze

Korsmeyer, Carolyn