ABSTRACT
Organised around the theme of beauty, this innovative collection offers insight into the development of anthropological thinking on art, aesthetics and creativity in recent years. The volume incorporates current work on perception and generative processes, and seeks to move beyond a purely aesthetic and relativist stance. The chapters invite readers to consider how people sense and seek out beauty, whether through acts of human creativity and production; through sensory experience of sound, light or touch, or experiencing architecture; visiting heritage sites or ancient buildings; experiencing the environment through ‘places of outstanding natural beauty’; or through cooperative action, machine-engineering or designing for the future.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|30 pages
Beauty and pattern
part II|61 pages
Beauty as grace
chapter 7|14 pages
The continual changes
part III|74 pages
Perceiving beauty
chapter 8|16 pages
Grace in moving and joy in sharing
part IV|43 pages
Beauty and skill
part V|45 pages
Beauty, the body and performance
part VI|62 pages
Beauty in space and time
chapter 18|13 pages
Threshold and temporality in architecture
chapter 20|18 pages
Paradigms of transmission
part VII|61 pages
Beauty, work and design
part VIII|64 pages
Beauty as synthesis