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Subject(s)

• Human body (Philosophy) [Browse]
• Human beings in art [Browse]
• Aesthetics [Browse]
• Monstrosity [Browse]

Editor

• Malakasioti, Angeliki [Browse]
• Kokkiou, Chara, 1964- [Browse]

Series

• Routledge research in art history. [More in this series]
• Routledge Research in Art History Series

Summary note

This book takes a new look at an old question: what is the relationship between beauty and monstrosity? How has the notion of beauty transformed through the years and how does it coincide with monstrous ontologies?.

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Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• PART I: Prelude
• 1. The Garden: A Topological View
• PART II: The Ancient Human: Retracing the Past
• 2a. An Exquisite Appearance, A Beautiful Mind?: Thinking of Plato's Charmides in Plutarch's Life of Demetrius
• 2b. A Beauty's Letter and the Beasts: Ariadne's Heroidian Epistle (Ov. Her. 10)
• 2c. Infernal Women: Polysemic Winged Figures in Etruscan Art
• PART III: On Otherness: A New Kind of Body
• 3a. Bodies of Hybridity: Animal, Cyborg, and the Supernatural Becoming
• 3b. Teratological Machine in the Female Body: The "Hottentot Venus" as Beauty-and-the-Beast from a Decolonial Feminist Perspective
• 3c. Female Body, Disgust, and the Erotic Redefined: The Dialectic Mindshaping
• PART IV: Hybridities: New Genres and Contexts
• 4a. Anthropogarde of Stage, Cult, and the Popular: Co-Ritus, Labyrinths, Actions
• 4b. The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Africanfuturist
• 4c. Beauties and Beasts: Enchanted Environments as Vehicle for the Creator's Self-discovery
• PART V: Performing the Human: Metamorphosis in Art
• 5a. WHEN UGLINESS IS TURNED INTO ORGANS OF SEDUCTION
• 5b. ReWired, ReMixed, and ReImagined: An Interview with Stelarc
• PART VI: Technology vs Canonization: Alternative Ontologies and Crossing Boundaries
• 6a. Creating Life: An Embryo Assembly Line
• 6b. Art of the AIs, by the AIs, for the Art's Sake
• 6c. Robots: Signs of Disruption
• PART VII: Spatial Ontologies: Space and Human Transformation
• 7a. Architectural Representation as a Body without Organs
• 7b. Exploring the Urban Jungle: Making Space for Wildness in Cities
• PART VIII: The End of the Human: Death and Reflections into Morbidity.
• 8a. The Aesthetics of Hollowed Experience: Benjamin, Ensor, James
• 8b. Desiring the Zombie
• 8c. Medusa, Monstrous Beauty, and Neuroaesthetics
• PART IX: Coda
• 9. Truth, Beauty and Hungry Monsters
• PART X: Instead of an Epilogue
• 10. Un-Ending: Portrait of a Transforming Human
• Index.

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ISBN

• 9781003845652
• 1003845657
• 9781003327516
• 1003327516

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