The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine

2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-42673-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4925 g

An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saunders, Corinne

Fuller, David

Macnaughton, Jane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Chirurgie Plastische, Rekonstruktive & Kosmetische Chirurgie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on the contributors
Introduction; David Fuller, Corinne Saunders, Jane Macnaughton
PART I: MIND, BODY, SOUL
1. Beautiful Ideas: The Visibility of Truth; Mark McIntosh
2. Beauty, Virtue and Danger in Medieval English Romance; Corinne Saunders
3.Bathing for Beauty in the Middle Ages; Elizabeth Archibald
4. Posture is Beauty; Sander Gilman
PART II: ART, IDEAS, IDEALS
5. Beauty, Pain, and Violence: Through Lessing and Nietzsche to King Lear; David Fuller
6. Beauty Writes Literary History: Revisiting the Myth of Bloomsbury; Patricia Waugh
7. 'Raising Sparks'; An Interview with Michael Symmons Roberts
8. 'More natural than nature, more artificial than art'; An Interview with David Bintley
PART III: SURGERY, REPARATION, IMAGINATION
9. 'Elegant' Surgery: The Beauty of Clinical Expertise; Jane Macnaughton
10. Portraiture, Beauty, Pain; Ludmilla Jordanova
11. War and Beauty: The Act of Unmasking in Pat Barker's Toby's Room and Louisa Young's My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You; Anne Whitehead
PART IV: RESCUING BEAUTY
12. Beauty in the Brain of the Beholder: Art, Neural Plasticity and Visual Pleasure; John Onians
13. The Pendulum of Taste: Architecture and the Rise of a State Aesthetic; Simon Thurley
14. Beauty and the Sacred; Roger Scruton
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Archibald, Durham University, UK
David Bintley, Birmingham Royal Ballet, UK
David Fuller, University of Durham, UK
Sander L. Gilman, Emory University, USA
Ludmilla Jordanova, Durham University, UK
Jane Macnaughton, Durham University, UK
Mark A. McIntosh, Loyola University Chicago, USA
John Onians, University of East Anglia, UK
Michael Symmons Roberts, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Corinne Saunders, Durham University, UK
Roger Scruton, independent scholar, UK
Simon Thurley, English Heritage, UK
Anne Whitehead, Newcastle University, UK