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Beauty Matters

by Peggy Brand
Beauty Matters

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ISBN13: 9780253213754
ISBN10: 0253213754



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Beauty MattersEdited by Peg Zeglin BrandForeword by Eleanor Heartney

Explores the values and politics of beauty as they affect our everyday lives.

Beauty has captured human interest since before Plato, but how, why, and to whom does beauty matter in today's world? Whose standard of beauty motivates African Americans to straighten their hair? What inspires beauty queens to measure up as flawless objects for the male gaze? Why does a French performance artist use cosmetic surgery to remake her face into a composite of the master painters' version of beauty? How does beauty culture perceive the disabled body? Is the constant effort to remain young and thin, often at considerable economic and emotional expense, ethically justifiable? Provocative essays by an international group of scholars discuss aesthetics in aesthetics, the arts, the tools of fashion, the materials of decoration, and the big business of beautification -- beauty matters -- to reveal the ways gender, race, and sexual orientation have informed the concept of beauty and driven us to become more beautiful. Here, Kant rubs shoulders with Calvin Klein. Beauty Matters draws from visual art, dance, cultural history, and literary and feminist theory to explore the values and politics of beauty. Various philosophical perspectives on ethics and aesthetics emerge from this penetrating book to determine and reveal that beauty is never disinterested.

Peg Zeglin Brand is an artist and Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is co-editor (with Carolyn Korsmeyer) of Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics. She is currently writing a book entitled Parodies and Politics: Feminist Strategies in the Visual Arts.

Contents: Foreword: Cutting Two Ways with Beauty Eleanor HeartneyAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: How Beauty Matters Peg Zeglin BrandPart 1. Beyond Kant1. Kantian and Contextual Beauty Marcia M. Eaton2. Ethnicity, Race, and Monstrosity: The Rhetorics of Horror and Humor NoAl Carroll3. Malcolm's Conk and Danto's Colors, or: Four Logical Petitions Concerning Race, Beauty, and Aesthetics Paul C. Taylor4. Beauty and Beautification Arthur C. DantoPart 2. Body Beautiful5. Beauty and Its Kitsch Competitors Kathleen M. Higgins6. Beauty (Re)Discovers the Male Body Susan Bordo7. Miss America: Whose Ideal? Dawn Perlmutter 8. Female Bodily Aesthetics, Politics, and Feminine Ideals of Beauty in China Eva Kit Wah Man9. From the Crooked Timber of Humanity, Beautiful Things Can Be Made Anita SilversPart 3. Body as Art10. Whose Beauty? Women, Art, and Inter-subjectivity in Luce Irigaray's Writings Hilary Robinson11. A Man Pretending to Be a Woman: On Yasumasa Morimura's Actresses Kaori Chino12. A New Kind of Beauty': KaroleArmitag's Early Ballets Sally Banes13. Bound to Beauty: An Interview with Orlan Peg Zeglin BrandContributorsIndex

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Beauty has captured human interest since before Plato, but how, why, and to whom does beauty matter in today's world? Whose standard of beauty motivates African Americans to straighten their hair? What inspires beauty queens to measure up as flawless objects for the male gaze? Why does a French performance artist use cosmetic surgery to remake her face into a composite of the master painters' version of beauty? How does beauty culture perceive the disabled body? Is the constant effort to remain young and thin, often at considerable economic and emotional expense, ethically justifiable? Provocative essays by an international group of scholars discuss aesthetics in aesthetics, the arts, the tools of fashion, the materials of decoration, and the big business of beautification--beauty matters--to reveal the ways gender, race, and sexual orientation have informed the concept of beauty and driven us to become more beautiful. Here, Kant rubs shoulders with Calvin Klein. Beauty Matters draws from visual art, dance, cultural history, and literary and feminist theory to explore the values and politics of beauty. Various philosophical perspectives on ethics and aesthetics emerge from this penetrating book to determine and reveal that beauty is never disinterested.

About the Author

Peg Zeglin Brand is an artist and Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis. Her new collection of essays, Beauty Revisited, is forthcoming from Indiana University Press.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Cutting Two Ways with Beauty Eleanor Heartney

Acknowledgments

Introduction: How Beauty Matters Peg Zeglin Brand

Part 1. Beyond Kant

1. Kantian and Contextual Beauty Marcia M. Eaton

2. Ethnicity, Race, and Monstrosity: The Rhetorics of Horror and Humor Nokl Carroll

3. Malcolm's Conk and Danto's Colors, or: Four Logical Petitions Concerning Race, Beauty, and Aesthetics Paul C. Taylor

4. Beauty and Beautification Arthur C. Danto

Part 2. Body Beautiful

5. Beauty and Its Kitsch Competitors Kathleen M. Higgins

6. Beauty (Re)Discovers the Male Body Susan Bordo

7. Miss America: Whose Ideal? Dawn Perlmutter

8. Female Bodily Aesthetics, Politics, and Feminine Ideals of Beauty in China Eva Kit Wah Man

9. From the Crooked Timber of Humanity, Beautiful Things Can Be Made Anita Silvers

Part 3. Body as Art

10. Whose Beauty? Women, Art, and Inter-subjectivity in Luce Irigaray's Writings Hilary Robinson

11. A Man Pretending to Be a Woman: On Yasumasa Morimura's Actresses Kaori Chino

12. "A New Kind of Beauty": Karole Armitage's Early Ballets Sally Banes

13. Bound to Beauty: An Interview with Orlan Peg Zeglin Brand

Contributors

Index


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Product Details

ISBN:
9780253213754
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
05/22/2000
Publisher:
Indiana University Press
Language:
English
Pages:
352
Height:
.89IN
Width:
6.12IN
Thickness:
.89 in.
LCCN:
99056085
Number of Units:
1
Illustration:
Yes
Copyright Year:
2000
Series Volume:
no. 4
UPC Code:
2800253213756
Author:
Peggy Brand
Ed:
Peg Zeglin Brand
Ed:
Peg Zeglin Weiser
Subject:
General Philosophy
Subject:
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Subject:
Feminine beauty
Subject:
Feminist Studies-General

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