Performing Beauty In Participatory Art And Culture
Falk Heinrich · 2014
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"This book investigates the notion of beauty in participatory art, an interdisciplinary form which necessitates the audience's participation, as often seen in interactive art and technology-driven media installations.Taking into consideration established theories of beauty from Plato, Hume, Kant, Mothersill, and Gadamer, Heinrich argues that the experience of beauty in participatory art demands a revised notion of beauty that accounts for the performative and ludic turn within various art forms and, in a broader sense, within a technology-saturated culture. Through case studies of participatory art, he provides an art-theoretical approach to rewriting the notion of beauty.These findings are applied to a broader context of media and design artefacts and testify to ongoing changes in our general understanding of beauty"--
Book details
- Year
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Editions
- 8
- Pages
- 219
- ISBN
- 9780415745291
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