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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Carolyn Korsmeyer |
| ISBN: | 0415266580 9780415266581 0415266599 9780415266598 9780203646632 0203646630 |
| OCLC Number: | 52948829 |
| Description: | xi, 195 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Artists and art: a brief history of concepts -- Aesthetic pleasures -- Amateurs and professionals -- Deep gender: taste and food -- What is art? (Art is what?) -- Difficult pleasures: sublimity and disgust. |
| Series Title: | Understanding feminist philosophy. |
| Responsibility: | Carolyn Korsmeyer. |
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This illustrated introductory text looks at the key theories and thinkers within art from a philosophical viewpoint. Focusing on the role gender plays, the book covers the most pertinent topics within feminist aesthetics.
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<p> remarkably accessible, engaging, and very readable: it assumes little specialist philosophical knowledge. Gender and Aesthetics is very clearly written, and presents concise lucid explanations of several complex theoretical and philosophical positions. - The British Journal of Aesthetics Read more...
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