Passing strange and wonderful : aesthetics nature and culture / / Yi-Fu Tuan
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| Autore: |
Tuan Yi-fu <1930-2022, >
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| Titolo: |
Passing strange and wonderful : aesthetics nature and culture / / Yi-Fu Tuan
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| Pubblicazione: | Washington, DC : , : Island Press, , [2013] |
| ©2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (302 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 111.85 |
| Soggetto topico: | Aesthetics, Comparative |
| Nature (Aesthetics) | |
| Environmental ethics | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- CONTENTS -- Prologue: Light and Shadows -- PART I: AESTHETICS, NATURE, AND CULTURE -- Chapter 1. The Aesthetic in Life and Culture -- 2. The Development of the Aesthetic Impulse -- PART II: SENSORY DELIGHTS -- 3. Pleasures of the Proximate Senses -- 4. Voices, Sounds, and Heavenly Music -- 5. Visual Delight and Splendor -- PART III: A CULTURAL-AESTHETIC SPECTRUM -- 6. Australian Aborigines, the Chinese, and Medieval Europeans -- 7. American Place and Scene -- PART IV: SYNTHESIS OF SPACE AND THE STATE -- 8. Synesthesia, Metaphor, and Symbolic Space -- 9. Ritual and the Aesthetic-Moral State -- The Chinese Aesthetic-Moral State: T'ang Empire -- Renaissance Venice as an Aesthetic-Moral State -- France: The Sun King's Aesthetic-Moral State -- America the Beautiful and the Moral -- PART V: AESTHETICS AND MORALITY -- 10. Good and Beautiful -- Epilogue: Shadows and Light -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Passing strange and wonderful |
| ISBN: | 1-61091-296-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910797046403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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