The recovery of beauty : arts, culture, medicine / [edited by] Corinne Saunders, Professor of English Literature, Durham University, UK ; Jane Macnaughton, Professor of Medical Humanities and Deputy Head of School of Medicine Pharmacy and Health, Durham University, UK ; David Fuller, Emeritus Professor of English, Durham University, UK.
The Recovery of Beauty comprises fourteen essays exploring what constitutes beauty across time in Western thought and art, its shaping and sustained cultural role, and its relation to a fully human existence. The book engages with the need to rescue beauty, not just to keep alive traditions of thoug...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction; David Fuller, Corinne Saunders, Jane Macnaughton -- PART I: MIND, BODY, SOUL -- 1. Beautiful Ideas: The Visibility of Truth; Mark McIntosh -- 2. Beauty, Virtue and Danger in Medieval English Romance; Corinne Saunders -- 3.Bathing for Beauty in the Middle Ages; Elizabeth Archibald -- 4. Posture is Beauty; Sander Gilman -- PART II: ART, IDEAS, IDEALS -- 5. Beauty, Pain, and Violence: Through Lessing and Nietzsche to "King Lear"; David Fuller -- 6. Beauty Writes Literary History: Revisiting the Myth of Bloomsbury; Patricia Waugh -- 7. 'Raising Sparks'; An Interview with Michael Symmons Roberts -- 8. 'More natural than nature, more artificial than art'; An Interview with David Bintley -- PART III: SURGERY, REPARATION, IMAGINATION -- 9. 'Elegant' Surgery: The Beauty of Clinical Expertise; Jane Macnaughton -- 10. Portraiture, Beauty, Pain; Ludmilla Jordanova -- 11. War and Beauty: The Act of Unmasking in Pat Barker's" Toby's Room" and Louisa Young's "My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You"; Anne Whitehead -- PART IV: RESCUING BEAUTY -- 12. Beauty in the Brain of the Beholder: Art, Neural Plasticity and Visual Pleasure; John Onians -- 13. The Pendulum of Taste: Architecture and the Rise of a State Aesthetic; Simon Thurley -- 14. Beauty and the Sacred; Roger Scruton. | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | |a The Recovery of Beauty comprises fourteen essays exploring what constitutes beauty across time in Western thought and art, its shaping and sustained cultural role, and its relation to a fully human existence. The book engages with the need to rescue beauty, not just to keep alive traditions of thought, but also to reinstate beauty as something more than a shifting cultural construction, to probe its constants and its value. Many of the essays engage with the cultural history of beauty and of its recovery, exploring the development of conceptions of beauty across time, the ways in which tensions are inherent in cultural understandings of beauty, the differences and continuities between past and present ideas of beauty, and the intersection of the aesthetic with the moral and spiritual. Literature provides a particular focus, but the book engages too with medicine and cosmetic surgery, philosophy, theology, visual arts, architecture and dance. Recurrent themes are the human need for beauty, its links to truth and understanding, and also its deceptive dangers. Finally, the book asks: does beauty have a restorative or healing agency? | ||
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