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Passing Strange and Wonderful : Aesthetics Nature And Culture.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : Island Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (302 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781610912969
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Passing Strange and WonderfulDDC classification:
  • 111.85
LOC classification:
  • BH85 .T836 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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