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"--

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ISBN: 1317755170
ISBN: 9781317755173
ISBN: 1317755189
ISBN: 9781317755180
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: London : Routledge, 2014.

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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 Beauty of Proprioception -- To Act-On the Beauty of Interaction -- To Perform-On Beauty as Realization -- The Beauty of Acts -- Beauty in a Participatory Culture.
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