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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Alberto Ferreira and Lucy Moyse -- The Pseudoscience of Beauty: Facts and Myths / Jacque Lynn Foltyn -- ‘Breaking the Bonds of Beauty’: The Dark Side of Beauty between the World Wars / Lucy Jane Moyse -- Evolutionary Scents: Lucy McRae’s Swallowable Parfum / Laini Burton -- From Object to Emotion: The Aesthetics of Human-Computer Interaction / Alberto José Viralhadas Ferreira -- Notions on Beauty in Mathematics and Arts / Tuuli Lähdesmäki -- Beauty in Space and Time: The Changing Construction of Beauty among Ghanaian Youth / Georgina Yaa Oduro -- Beauty Ideals and Tamil Movies: Comparing Views of Malaysian Indian and Indian Youths / Premalatha Karupiah -- Do I Have What it Takes? The Participants of Britain and Ireland’s Next Top Model as Cultural Intermediaries / Jenna Jones -- Postmodern (De)Constructions: Arata Isozaki and Japanese Dialogues on Beauty / Harpreet (Neena) Mand and Marly Swanson Wood -- Marie-Madeleine Guimard: Eighteenth Century Ballerina and Early Fashion Icon / Joanna Jarvis -- 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 / Gonul Bakay -- Female Beauty Workers Who Cannot Afford the Price of Beauty / Hager Faisal Amer -- Pursuing Body Beautiful: Men’s Beauty Aesthetics within the Space of the Beauty Parlor / Deepmala Baghel and D. Parthasarathy -- A Beautiful Lesson: Sublime Moments in Education / Seán Moran -- Queering the Hourglass: Beauty and New Wave Fat Activism / Lauren Downing Peters -- Functional/Dysfunctional Beauty: On the Creation and Commodification of Cuteness / Joel Gn.