Aesthetics in Feminist Perspective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aesthetics in Feminist Perspective write by Hilde Hein. This book was released on 1993-09-22. Aesthetics in Feminist Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A first-rate introduction to the field, accessible to scholars working from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Highly recommended... " -- Choice "... offers both broad theoretical considerations and applications to specific art forms, diverse methodological perspectives, and healthy debate among the contributors.... [an] outstanding volume."Â -- Philosophy and Literature "... this volume represents an eloquent and enlightened attempt to reconceptualize the field of aesthetic theory by encouraging its tendencies toward openness, self-reflexivity and plurality." -- Discourse & Society "All of the authors challenge the traditional notion of a pure and disinterested observer that does not allow for questions of race/ethnicity, class, sexual preference, or gender." -- Signs These essays examine the intellectual traditions of the philosophy of art and aesthetics. Containing essays by scholars and by the writer Marilyn French, the collection ranges from the history of aesthetic theory to a philosophical reflection on fashion. The contributions are unified by a sustained scrutiny of the nature of "feminist," "feminine," or "female" art, creativity, and interpretation.
Beyond Feminist Aesthetics
Beyond Feminist Aesthetics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Feminist Aesthetics write by Rita Felski. This book was released on 1989. Beyond Feminist Aesthetics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Felski presents a critical account of current American and European feminist literary theory, and analyzes contemporary fiction by women to show that no theorist can identify a specifically "female" or "feminine" kind of writing without reference to what gender means at a given historical moment. She argues that the idea of a feminist aesthetic is a non-issue needlessly pursued by feminists. She calls for a consideration of the social and cultural context in which these texts were produced and received, and demonstrates her method of an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of literature which can integrate literary and social theory. ISBN 0-674-06894-7: $25.00; ISBN 0-674-06895-5 (pbk.): $9.95.
Gender and Aesthetics
Gender and Aesthetics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender and Aesthetics write by Carolyn Korsmeyer. This book was released on 2004-07-31. Gender and Aesthetics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. Organized thematically, the book introduces in clear language the most important topics within feminist aesthetics: Why were there so few women painters? Art, pleasure and beauty Music, literature and painting The role of gender in taste and food What is art and who is an artist? Disgust and the sublime. Each chapter discusses important topics and thinkers within art and examines the role gender plays in our understanding of them. These topics include creativity, genius and the appreciation of art, and thinkers from Plato, Kant, and Hume to Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva. Also included in the book are illustrations from Gaugin and Hogarth to Cindy Sherman and Nancy Spero to clarify and help introduce often difficult concepts. Each chapter concludes with a summary and further reading and there is an extensive annotated bibliography. Carolyn Korsmeyer's style is refreshing and accessible, making the book suitable for students of philosophy, gender studies, visual studies and art theory, as well as anyone interested in the impact of gender on theories of art.
Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics
Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics write by Peggy Zeglin Brand. This book was released on 2010-11-01. Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism
Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism write by Ewa Płonowska Ziarek. This book was released on 2012. Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ewa Ziarek fully articulates a feminist aesthetics, focusing on the struggle for freedom in women's literary and political modernism and the devastating impact of racist violence and sexism. She examines the contradiction between women's transformative literary and political practices and the oppressive realities of racist violence and sexism, and she situates these tensions within the entrenched opposition between revolt and melancholia in studies of modernity and within the friction between material injuries and experimental aesthetic forms. Ziarek's political and aesthetic investigations concern the exclusion and destruction of women in politics and literary production and the transformation of this oppression into the inaugural possibilities of writing and action. Her study is one of the first to combine an in-depth engagement with philosophical aesthetics, especially the work of Theodor W. Adorno, with women's literary modernism, particularly the writing of Virginia Woolf and Nella Larsen, along with feminist theories on the politics of race and gender. By bringing seemingly apolitical, gender-neutral debates about modernism's experimental forms together with an analysis of violence and destroyed materialities, Ziarek challenges both the anti-aesthetic subordination of modern literature to its political uses and the appreciation of art's emancipatory potential at the expense of feminist and anti-racist political struggles.
