Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Cheyne, Peter

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents interdisciplinary research on the aesthetics of perfection and imperfection. Broadening this growing field, it connects the aesthetics of imperfection with issues in areas including philosophy, music, literature, urban environment, architecture, art theory, and cultural studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000829143
• Artikelnr.: 66764142

Autorenporträt

Peter Cheyne is Associate Professor in British Literature and Culture, Shimane University, Japan, and Visiting Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, University of Durham, UK. He is the author of Coleridge's Contemplative Philosophy (2020). Additionally, he is the editor of Coleridge and Contemplation (2017) and co-editor, with Andy Hamilton and Max Paddison, of The Philosophy of Rhythm: Aesthetics, Music, Poetics (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Imperfectionist Aesthetics, Broadening the Field and Clarifying the Definition



Peter Cheyne



I. Imperfection Across the Arts and Culture

2. Imperfectionist Aesthetics and the Inclusionist Ethos



Peter Cheyne



3. Imperfection and the Unfinished Work



Andy Hamilton



4. Art Proper, Perfectionism, and the Sacred Arts



Gordon Graham



II. Music

5. Revisiting the Aesthetics of Imperfection after Thirty-Five Years



Ted Gioia



6. Close Enough for Jazz: Imperfection and Jazz Improvisation



David Wild



7. A Social Aesthetics and Ethics of Imperfection: Insights from Karnatak Music, Jazz and Free Improvisation



Lara Pearson



III. Visual and Theatrical Arts

8. The Necessity of Imperfection: Philip Guston in the 1950s



Karen Lang



9. Thai Theatre and the Interplay of Perfection and Imperfection



Sirithorn Siriwan and Sarawanee Sukhumvada



10. Wabi-Sabi Aesthetic and Joseph Beuys' Badewanne (1960)



Eda Keskin



IV. Literature

11. The Aesthetics of Weeds: A Case in Junzabur Nishiwaki



Kaz Oishi and Yasuo Kobayashi



12. The Poetics of Ruins: Matsuo Basho and Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Comparative Study



Gregory Dunne



13. The Aesthetics of Perfection and Imperfection in Iris Murdoch's An Accidental Man



Fiona Tomkinson



14. The Triumph of Imperfection: Yeats's 'Among School Children'



Joseph S. O'Leary



V. Everyday Life

15. The Role of Imperfection in Consumer Aesthetics



Yuriko Saito



16. Imperfection and the Politics of Realism



Thomas Docherty



17. Everyday Encounters with Aesthetic Imperfection and Perfection



James Kirwan



18. Aesthetic Imperfection and Ethical Edification



Lucas Scripter



19. Collecting What? Collecting as an Everyday Aesthetic Act



Laura Di Summa



VI. Body, Self, and the Person

20. Bodies, Functions, and Imperfections



Sherri Irvin



21. Imperfection as a Vehicle for Fat Visibility in Popular Media



Cheryl Frazier



22. Imperfection and Beauty of Character



Glenn Parsons



23. The Self, Perfectionism, and the Value of Imperfection



Christopher Hamilton



VII. Urban Environments

24. Street Art, Graffiti, and Tags: The Value of Imperfection in Urban Aesthetics



Andrea Baldini



25. The Aesthetics of Imperfection and Architectural Design for Memorial Sites: Four Documentation Centres on National Socialism in Germany



Rumiko Handa



26. Urban Experience as Aesthetic Compromise



Sanna Lehtinen



27. Grit and Urban (Im)Perfection



Renee Conroy.

Index

Rezensionen

"This collection of essays discusses the occurrence, function, and value of imperfection in a variety of human practices ... More work can be expected in this area, and this volume will be a reference point for those who will engage in it."

Matteo Ravasio, British Journal of Aesthetics