Performing beauty in participatory art and culture

Summary: "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"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781317755180 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1317755189 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780415745291
ISBN: 0415745292
ISBN: 9781315797984 (ebook)
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource.
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	On the Ambiguity of the Notion of Beauty -- Technology -- Unity and Distinctions -- To Do -- On the Immediacy of Performative Beauty -- To Act -- On the Beauty of Interaction -- To Perform : On Beauty as Realization -- The Beauty of Acts -- Beauty in a Participatory Culture.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.