Gender and aesthetics : an introduction / / Carolyn Korsmeyer

• Autore: Korsmeyer Carolyn
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Disciplina: 700/.1/03082
• Soggetto topico: Feminism and art; Women in art; Feminist theory; Arts - Philosophy; Féminisme et art; Femmes dans l'art; Théorie féministe; Arts - Philosophie
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-187) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Artists and art: a brief history of concepts; Aesthetic pleasures; Amateurs and professionals; Deep gender: taste and food; What is art? (Art is what?); Difficult pleasures: sublimity and disgust; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Feminist approaches to art are extremely influential and widely studied across a variety of disciplines, including art theory, cultural and visual studies, and philosophy. Gender and Aesthetics 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Gender and aesthetics
• ISBN: 1-134-50046-7; 1-299-14020-3; 0-415-26658-0; 1-134-50047-5; 1-280-02534-4; 0-203-64663-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783865003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Understanding feminist philosophy.