Aesthetic subjects
By: Pamela R. Matthews and David McWhirter, editors
Contributors: Matthews, Pamela R; McWhirter, David
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 499
Subjects: Aesthetics -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Based on a conference held in spring 1998 at Texas A&M University

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Drifting into dangerous waters: the separation of aesthetic experience from the work of art / Martin Jay; title: Armed assault / Alphonso Lingis; title: Reinventing the wall: looking into Zaha Hadid / Kay Bea Jones; title: Pleasures incarnate: aesthetic sentiment in the nineteenth-century work of art / Judith Stoddart; title: Caravaggio's secrets / Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit; title: The moral content of Nabokov's Lolita / Susan Bordo; title: The aesthetics of Jewishness: Shelley Winters / Joseph Litvak; title: Theorizing popular practice in eighteenth-century aesthetics: Lord Kames and Alexander Gerard / Maureen Harkin; title: The labor theory of beauty: aesthetic subjects, blind justice / Douglas Mao; title: Sinthom-osexuality / Lee Edelman; title: The combinatorial aesthetics of neurobiology / Barbara Maria Stafford; title: Cloth wounds: queer aesthetics of debasement / Kathryn Bond Stockton; title: Embodying culture: Dorian's wish / Audrey Jaffe; title: Bad taste, the root evil: I.A. Richards and the postnational subject / Howard Horwitz; title: The gift: reflections on the Eames House / Beatriz Colomina; title: What is construction, what's the aesthetic, what was Adorno doing? / Robert Kaufman; title: The secret life of things: Virginia Woolf and the matter of modernism / Bill Brown; title: Arresting images / Kathleen Stewart; title: The adult's imagination of the child's imagination / Michael Taussig