Cosmetic, aesthetic, prophetic : : beyond the boundaries of beauty / / 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Oxford, England : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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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.