Cosmetic, aesthetic, prophetic : : beyond the boundaries of beauty / / edited by Alberto Ferreira and Lucy Moyse.

• TeilnehmendeR: Ferreira, Alberto,; Moyse, Lucy,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, England : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; The Pseudoscience of Beauty: Facts and Myths /; ‘Breaking the Bonds of Beauty’: The Dark Side of Beauty between the World Wars /; Evolutionary Scents: Lucy McRae’s Swallowable Parfum /; From Object to Emotion: The Aesthetics of Human-Computer Interaction /; Notions on Beauty in Mathematics and Arts /; Beauty in Space and Time: The Changing Construction of Beauty among Ghanaian Youth /; Beauty Ideals and Tamil Movies: Comparing Views of Malaysian Indian and Indian Youths /; Do I Have What it Takes? The Participants of Britain and Ireland’s Next Top Model as Cultural Intermediaries /; Postmodern (De)Constructions: Arata Isozaki and Japanese Dialogues on Beauty /; Marie-Madeleine Guimard: Eighteenth Century Ballerina and Early Fashion Icon /; The Influence of Walter Pater’s Theory of Aesthetics on Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray /; Female Beauty Workers Who Cannot Afford the Price of Beauty /; Pursuing Body Beautiful: Men’s Beauty Aesthetics within the Space of the Beauty Parlor /; A Beautiful Lesson: Sublime Moments in Education /; Queering the Hourglass: Beauty and New Wave Fat Activism /; Functional/Dysfunctional Beauty: On the Creation and Commodification of Cuteness /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1848885458
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Alberto Ferreira and Lucy Moyse.

The ever-elusive field of Beauty Studies is one that often underappreciated, yet it is a key concept across all spheres of knowledge, transcending traditional and innovative epistemologies, and providing provocative insights into fundamental aspects of human existence. Here, researchers from around the globe contribute rich and diverse ideas and perspectives from a multitude of disciplines to highlight, explore, and re-evaluate the significance and infinite implications of this pervading topic, within history, science, society, culture, new media, mathematics, art, and literature.