- 262 pages
- English
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Beauty and Monstrosity in Art and Culture
About this book
This edited volume takes a new look at an old question: what is the relationship between beauty and monstrosity? How has the notion of beauty transformed through the years and how does it coincide with monstrous ontologies? Contributors offer an interdisciplinary approach to how these two concepts are interlinked and emphasize the ways the beautiful and the monstrous pervade human experience.
The two notions are explored through the axis of human transformation, focusing on body, identity, and gender, while questioning both how humans transform their body and space as well as how humans themselves are gradually transformed in different contexts. The pandemic, gender crisis, moral crisis, sociocultural instability, and environmental issues have redefined beauty and the relationship we have with it. Exploring these concepts through the lens of human transformation can yield valuable insights into what it means to be human in a world of constant change.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, archaeology, philosophy, architecture, and cultural studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Prelude
- Part II The Ancient Human: Retracing the Past
- Part III On Otherness: A New Kind of Body
- Part IV Hybridities: New Genres and Contexts
- Part V Performing the Human: Metamorphosis in Art
- Part VI Technology vs Canonization: Alternative Ontologies and Crossing Boundaries
- Part VII Spatial Ontologies: Space and Human Transformation
- Part VIII The End of the Human: Death and Reflections into Morbidity
- Part IX Coda
- Part X Instead of an Epilogue
- Index