| Description |
1 online resource (413 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Aesthetics Ser |
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Routledge Research in Aesthetics Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Imperfectionist Aesthetics, Broadening the Field and Clarifying the Definition -- PART I: Imperfection Across the Arts and Culture -- 2 Imperfectionist Aesthetics and the Inclusionist Ethos -- 3 Imperfection and the Unfinished Work -- 4 Art Proper, Perfectionism, and the Sacred Arts -- PART II: Music -- 5 Revisiting the Aesthetics of Imperfection after Thirty-Five Years -- 6 Close Enough for Jazz: Imperfection and Jazz Improvisation |
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7 A Social Aesthetics and Ethics of Imperfection: Insights from Karnatak Music, Jazz and Free Improvisation -- PART III: Visual and Theatrical Arts -- 8 The Necessity of Imperfection: Philip Guston in the 1950s -- 9 Thai Theatre and the Interplay of Perfection and Imperfection -- 10 Wabi-Sabi Aesthetic and Joseph Beuys's Badewanne (1960) -- PART IV: Literature -- 11 The Aesthetics of Weeds: A Case in Junzaburo Ì„Nishiwaki -- 12 The Poetics of Ruins: Matsuo Basho and Nathaniel Hawthorne, a Comparative Study -- 13 The Aesthetics of Perfection and Imperfection in Iris Murdoch's An Accidental Man |
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14 The Triumph of Imperfection: Yeats's 'Among School Children' -- PART V: Everyday Life -- 15 The Role of Imperfection in Consumer Aesthetics -- 16 Imperfection and the Politics of Realism -- 17 Everyday Encounters with Aesthetic Imperfection and Perfection -- 18 Aesthetic Imperfection and Ethical Edification -- 19 Collecting What? Collecting as an Everyday Aesthetic Act -- PART VI: Body, Self, and the Person -- 20 Bodies, Functions, and Imperfections -- 21 Imperfection as a Vehicle for Fat Visibility in Popular Media -- 22 Imperfection and Beauty of Character |
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23 Art, the Self, and the Value of Imperfection -- PART VII: Urban Environments -- 24 Street Art, Graffiti, and Tags: The Value of Imperfection in Urban Aesthetics -- 25 The Aesthetics of Imperfection and Architectural Design for Memorial Sites: Four Documentation Centres on National Socialism in Germany -- 26 Urban Experience as Aesthetic Compromise -- 27 Grit and Urban (Im)perfection -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000829143 |
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1000829146 |
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