Beauty and Monstrosity in Art and Culture

Herausgeber: Malakasioti, Angeliki; Kokkiou, Chara

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781032355825
• ISBN-10: 1032355824
• Artikelnr.: 69433524

Autorenporträt

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 Assistant Professor in the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University, with artistic and research activity in the fields of digital space and culture, audio-visual representations, new technologies, and creative methodologies.

Inhaltsangabe

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"