Feminist aesthetics and philosophy of art: the power of critical visions and creative engagement

While much feminist philosophy is enjoying third- and fourth-wave developments and can build on its scholarly roots forged in the 1960’s and 1970’s, feminist contributions have taken what seems an exceptionally long time to break into the stubborn areas of aesthetics and philosophy of art. Some feminist scholars might reasonably consider aesthetics to be a back-burner issue: if we take feminism mainly to be a movement seeking equality and strategies to address social, economic, and political inequities, views on art practices or values have tended to seem less important than work in the sister area of feminist social and political theory.The truth is, however, that areas of aesthetic value, political value, ethical value—even scientific value and religious value—intersect in meaningful and complex ways, both in practices of oppression and liberatory strategies. The authors in this volume explore the connections between these value spheres thatare too often separated. Feminist Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art: The Powerof Critical Visions and Creative Engagement addresses this dearth in the field, and seeks to build on those prior foundational perspectives in feminist aesthetics/philosophy of art. This volume is particularly timely, as it gathers work from scholars who have been able to both build on and offer internal feminist critiques of the previous groundwork. INDICE: Introduction; L. Ryan Musgrave.- Section I Turning this Century: Current Frameworks in Feminist Aesthetics.- 1. The End of Feminist Aesthetics?;Joanne Waugh and Jennifer Ingle.- 2. Feminist Art: The Very Idea!; Sheila Lintott.- 3. The Feminist Art Project (TFAP) and Its Significance for Feminist Aesthetics; Peg Brand.- 4. Restyling the Museum in Feminist Theory: Glancing from Somewhere; Hilde Hein.- Section II Feminist Aesthetics and Epistemology: Judgments, Interests, Knowers and Knowledge.- 5. Beauty and Its Shadow: A Feminist Critique of Disinterestedness; Katy Deepwell.- 6. Why Feminists Shouldn't Deny Disinterestedness; A.W. Eaton.- 7. The Aesthetics of Ignorance; Monique Roelofs.- 8. Judgments of Taste and Feeling Norms: Lessons from Hume for a Naturalised Feminist Aesthetics; Amy M. Schmitter and Leah A. Spencer.- Section III Current Themes in Feminist Aesthetics.- A. Embodiment.- 9. Representing Women:Lisa Yuskavage and Kiki Smith; Mary Wiseman.- 10. Feminist Theater and the Aesthetics of Transformation; Jennifer Cavenaugh.- 11. Body Matters: The Aesthetic Relevance of 'Dancing Along'; Renee Conroy.- 12. Feminist Aesthetics, Popular Music, and the Politics of the 'Mainstream'; Robin James.- B. Moral Imagination.- 13. Feminist Ethics: A Bearing on Aesthetic Judgments; Judit Torok.- 14. Feminism’s 'Exact Imagination': The Negative Dialectical Subtext of Sally Potter’s "The Tango Lesson"; Regina Cochrane.- 15. Art and Imagination; Amy Mullin.- C. Nature and the Environment.- 16. The Sublime; Bonnie Mann.- 17. Holly Lane’s Portrayal of Mary Magdalene as a Proto-Ecofeminist; Ruth Porritt.- D. Artistic Autonomy and Commodification.- 18. Feminist Politics and the Culture Industry: Adorno’s Critique Revisited; Lambert Zuidervaart.- 19. 'What You See Is (More Than) What You See': Kantian Disinterest, Minimalism, and Feminist Art; Hilary Davis.- 20. Feminist Art Objecting: Spero's Alternative Modernism; L. Ryan Musgrave Bonomo.- 21. An Indian in Paris: Amirita Sher-Gil's Modernist Quest for Freedom and Identity in Colonial India; Nalina Bhushan.- Section IV:Beyond Western Feminist Aesthetics.- 22. Making the Fetish: The Ethics of Aesthetics in a Feminist Performance Ethnography; Laura C. Box.- Beauty as A Philosophy of Mind and the Body: Confucian Aesthetics and Its Feminist Modality; Eva Kit Wah Man.- Early Feminist Aesthetics in Japan: Murasaki Shikibu, Sei Shonagon, and A Thousand Years of the Female Voice; Mara Miller.- Index.- Bibliography.

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-6836-2
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 290
• Fecha Publicación: 15/07/2021
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés