1st Edition

Gender and Aesthetics An Introduction

By Carolyn Korsmeyer Copyright 2004
208 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Feminist approaches to art are extremely influential and widely studied across a variety of disciplines, including art theory, cultural and visual studies, and philosophy. Gender and Aesthetics is an introduction to the major theories and thinkers within art and aesthetics from a philosophical perspective, carefully introducing and examining the role that gender plays in forming ideas about... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 ARTISTS AND ART; Chapter 2 AESTHETIC PLEASURES; Chapter 3 AMATEURS AND PROFESSIONALS; Chapter 4 DEEP GENDER; Chapter 5 WHAT IS ART?; Chapter 6 DIFFICULT PLEASURES; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;

Biography

Korsmeyer, Carolyn

‘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