Product Description: Refuting established views, this book questions today's ideas of beauty, including those applied to contemporary art, and proposes a secular theory of beauty as being glamorous rather than good, frivolous rather than serious.
a brief encapsulation this book really changed the way i think about painting and photography. one of the phrases in the book really stuck with me: "...a surface of poison" (in reference to painting). there are a lot of references to deleuze and bergson and heiddegger but if you don't read much philosophy, like me, and still get through this book, you will think differently about painting, photography, fashion and begin to contemplate concepts (for lack of a better word) like blankness, absence, frivolity, instantaneity, etc.
An intriguing coverage on the role of beauty in our culture. Art critic Gilbert-Rolfe explores beauty's changing role and aesthetics in society in Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime, a survey which blends philosophy and discussions of modern art and perceptions of beauty. An intriguing coverage which enters the debate about the role of beauty in our culture.
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