Corinne Saunders & David Fuller 
The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine [PDF ebook] 

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An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to ‘recover beauty’.

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List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on the contributors
Introduction; David Fuller, Corinne Saunders, Jane Macnaughton
PART I: MIND, BODY, SOUL
1. Beautiful Ideas: The Visibility of Truth; Mark Mc Intosh
2. Beauty, Virtue and Danger in Medieval English Romance; Corinne Saunders
3.Bathing for Beauty in the Middle Ages; Elizabeth Archibald
4. Posture is Beauty; Sander Gilman
PART II: ART, IDEAS, IDEALS
5. Beauty, Pain, and Violence: Through Lessing and Nietzsche to King Lear; David Fuller
6. Beauty Writes Literary History: Revisiting the Myth of Bloomsbury; Patricia Waugh
7. ‘Raising Sparks’; An Interview with Michael Symmons Roberts
8. ‘More natural than nature, more artificial than art’; An Interview with David Bintley
PART III: SURGERY, REPARATION, IMAGINATION
9. ‘Elegant’ Surgery: The Beauty of Clinical Expertise; Jane Macnaughton
10. Portraiture, Beauty, Pain; Ludmilla Jordanova
11. War and Beauty: The Act of Unmasking in Pat Barker’s Toby’s Room and Louisa Young’s My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You; Anne Whitehead
PART IV: RESCUING BEAUTY
12. Beauty in the Brain of the Beholder: Art, Neural Plasticity and Visual Pleasure; John Onians
13. The Pendulum of Taste: Architecture and the Rise of a State Aesthetic; Simon Thurley
14. Beauty and the Sacred; Roger Scruton
Bibliography
Index

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Elizabeth Archibald, Durham University, UK David Bintley, Birmingham Royal Ballet, UK David Fuller, University of Durham, UK Sander L. Gilman, Emory University, USA Ludmilla Jordanova, Durham University, UK Jane Macnaughton, Durham University, UK Mark A. Mc Intosh, Loyola University Chicago, USA John Onians, University of East Anglia, UK Michael Symmons Roberts, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Corinne Saunders, Durham University, UK Roger Scruton, independent scholar, UK Simon Thurley, English Heritage, UK Anne Whitehead, Newcastle University, UK

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语言 英语 ● 格式 PDF ● 网页 292 ● ISBN 9781137426741 ● 文件大小 9.2 MB ● 编辑 Jane Macnaughton ● 出版者 Palgrave Macmillan UK ● 市 London ● 国家 GB ● 发布时间 2015 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 4542603 ● 复制保护 社会DRM

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