Symptom of Beauty

Informationen zum Autor Francette Pacteau is Research Associate in Art History, University of California, Santa Cruz. For a woman in the Western world, there is no escaping beauty. Either she possesses it, or she lacks it. If she lacks it, she may hope to gain it. If she already has it, she will certainly lose it. But what is "it"? Not an objective thing, Francette Pacteau tells us, but a generic term for an unspecifiable number of psychological experiences in the mind of the observer. What these experiences are, what causes them, and how they manifest themselves as a notion of beauty is the subject of this book. Less interested in the contingent object of desire than the fantasy that frames it, Pacteau considers the "staging of the aesthetic emotion. Her analysis extends from the Classical ideals of beauty, through Renaissance poetry to the recent formulations of Hollywood. Her book is an ambitious attempt to describe the "mise-en-sc� 8ne of beauty within a particular field of representations � 6 that of the beauty of a woman.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Francette Pacteau, Pacteau Francette
• Editore: Reaktion Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.04.1994
• EAN: 9780948462542
• ISBN: 978-0-948462-54-2
• Pagine: 192
• Serie: Essays in Art and Culture (Rea; Essays in Art and Culture; Essays in Art and Culture (Rea
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Antiquariato; Theory of art, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / General, ART / History / General, Psychology, ART / Criticism & Theory, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Gender studies, gender groups