Anthropology and beauty : from aesthetics to creativity /
edited by Stephanie Bunn.
- 1 online resource (xv, 516 pages)
part, I Beauty and pattern -- chapter 1 Anthropology and beauty -- Introduction / chapter 2 The problem with beauty -- An anthropological perspective / chapter 3 The material labour of artful mathematics 1 / part, II Beauty as grace -- chapter 4 With beauty all around me, I walk / chapter 5 The unexpected gift of beauty / chapter 6 Beauty and captivation -- Fuyuge gab and Gell’s anthropological theory of art / chapter 7 The continual changes -- Transforming art styles in Enlightenment Scotland and beyond / part, III Perceiving beauty -- chapter 8 Grace in moving and joy in sharing -- The intrinsic Beauty of communicative musicality from birth / chapter 9 The Favourite Sounds Project / chapter 10 Colour palettes and beauty / chapter 11 Aso iyi, aso eye -- Resplendence and the Yoruba prestige textile aso-oke / part, IV Beauty and skill -- chapter 12 Beauty as a capacity -- A study of hands-in-craft / chapter 13 Cinematographers’ skilled vision and aesthetic praxis / chapter 14 Beauty as skill and ‘common sensing’ / part, V Beauty, the body and performance -- chapter 15 Fleshly beauty -- An anthropological perspective / chapter 16 Beauty in motion -- Collective creativity in contemporary dance / chapter 17 Surprised by beauty -- Imagining Autism / part, VI Beauty in space and time -- chapter 18 Threshold and temporality in architecture -- Practices of movement in Japanese architecture / chapter 19 Carbuncles, surfaces and beautiful built environments / chapter 20 Paradigms of transmission -- Aesthetic affinities and intertextualities in the art of Will Maclean / chapter 21 Beauty and belonging / part, VII Beauty, work and design -- chapter 22 Beauty and economy / chapter 23 Mysterious equations -- Formulating good design for Textiles U.S.A. / chapter 24 Engineering as a process of beauty / chapter 25 Collaborative forms / part, VIII Beauty as synthesis -- chapter 26 Appropriation, imitation and creation -- Glass beadwork among Panará people / chapter 27 The beauty of sand-drawing in Vanuatu -- Kinship and continuity on Paama Island / chapter 28 The beautiful and the blessed -- Brightness, balance and bones in Kyrgyz shyrdak felt / chapter 29 From the North with my cello, or, five propositions on beauty / Stephanie Bunn -- Susanne Küchler -- Elizabeth de Freitas -- Jill D’Alessandro -- Marc Higgin -- Eric Hirsch -- Peter Gow -- Colwyn Trevarthen Stephen Malloch -- Peter Cusack -- Diana J. B. Young -- Eni Bankole-Race -- Anna Gustafsson -- Cathy Greenhalgh -- Cristina Grasseni -- Alexander Edmonds -- Caroline M. Potter -- Melissa Trimingham -- Ray Lucas -- Rachel J. Harkness -- Lindsay Blair -- Cara Krmpotich -- Stephen Gudeman -- T’ai Smith -- Ian J. Ewart -- Wendy Gunn -- Elizabeth Ewart -- Craig Lind -- Stephanie Bunn -- Tim Ingold.
"Organised around the theme of beauty, this innovative collection offers insight into the development of anthropological thinking on art, aesthetics and creativity in recent years. The volume incorporates current work on perception and generative processes, and seeks to move beyond a purely aesthetic and relativist stance. The essays invite readers to consider how people sense and seek out beauty, whether through acts of human creativity and production; through sensory experience of sound, light, touch, or experiencing architecture; visiting heritage sites or ancient buildings; experiencing the environment through 'places of outstanding natural beauty'; or through cooperative action, machine-engineering or designing for the future."--Provided by publisher.
9781315681566 9781317400530
10.4324/9781315681566 doi
Aesthetics--History.
Anthropology--Philosophy.
Art and anthropology.
N72.A56 / A58 2018
701.03 / A628
part, I Beauty and pattern -- chapter 1 Anthropology and beauty -- Introduction / chapter 2 The problem with beauty -- An anthropological perspective / chapter 3 The material labour of artful mathematics 1 / part, II Beauty as grace -- chapter 4 With beauty all around me, I walk / chapter 5 The unexpected gift of beauty / chapter 6 Beauty and captivation -- Fuyuge gab and Gell’s anthropological theory of art / chapter 7 The continual changes -- Transforming art styles in Enlightenment Scotland and beyond / part, III Perceiving beauty -- chapter 8 Grace in moving and joy in sharing -- The intrinsic Beauty of communicative musicality from birth / chapter 9 The Favourite Sounds Project / chapter 10 Colour palettes and beauty / chapter 11 Aso iyi, aso eye -- Resplendence and the Yoruba prestige textile aso-oke / part, IV Beauty and skill -- chapter 12 Beauty as a capacity -- A study of hands-in-craft / chapter 13 Cinematographers’ skilled vision and aesthetic praxis / chapter 14 Beauty as skill and ‘common sensing’ / part, V Beauty, the body and performance -- chapter 15 Fleshly beauty -- An anthropological perspective / chapter 16 Beauty in motion -- Collective creativity in contemporary dance / chapter 17 Surprised by beauty -- Imagining Autism / part, VI Beauty in space and time -- chapter 18 Threshold and temporality in architecture -- Practices of movement in Japanese architecture / chapter 19 Carbuncles, surfaces and beautiful built environments / chapter 20 Paradigms of transmission -- Aesthetic affinities and intertextualities in the art of Will Maclean / chapter 21 Beauty and belonging / part, VII Beauty, work and design -- chapter 22 Beauty and economy / chapter 23 Mysterious equations -- Formulating good design for Textiles U.S.A. / chapter 24 Engineering as a process of beauty / chapter 25 Collaborative forms / part, VIII Beauty as synthesis -- chapter 26 Appropriation, imitation and creation -- Glass beadwork among Panará people / chapter 27 The beauty of sand-drawing in Vanuatu -- Kinship and continuity on Paama Island / chapter 28 The beautiful and the blessed -- Brightness, balance and bones in Kyrgyz shyrdak felt / chapter 29 From the North with my cello, or, five propositions on beauty / Stephanie Bunn -- Susanne Küchler -- Elizabeth de Freitas -- Jill D’Alessandro -- Marc Higgin -- Eric Hirsch -- Peter Gow -- Colwyn Trevarthen Stephen Malloch -- Peter Cusack -- Diana J. B. Young -- Eni Bankole-Race -- Anna Gustafsson -- Cathy Greenhalgh -- Cristina Grasseni -- Alexander Edmonds -- Caroline M. Potter -- Melissa Trimingham -- Ray Lucas -- Rachel J. Harkness -- Lindsay Blair -- Cara Krmpotich -- Stephen Gudeman -- T’ai Smith -- Ian J. Ewart -- Wendy Gunn -- Elizabeth Ewart -- Craig Lind -- Stephanie Bunn -- Tim Ingold.
"Organised around the theme of beauty, this innovative collection offers insight into the development of anthropological thinking on art, aesthetics and creativity in recent years. The volume incorporates current work on perception and generative processes, and seeks to move beyond a purely aesthetic and relativist stance. The essays invite readers to consider how people sense and seek out beauty, whether through acts of human creativity and production; through sensory experience of sound, light, touch, or experiencing architecture; visiting heritage sites or ancient buildings; experiencing the environment through 'places of outstanding natural beauty'; or through cooperative action, machine-engineering or designing for the future."--Provided by publisher.
9781315681566 9781317400530
10.4324/9781315681566 doi
Aesthetics--History.
Anthropology--Philosophy.
Art and anthropology.
N72.A56 / A58 2018
701.03 / A628