Beauty: The Body as Artefact
Beauty: The Body as Artefact traces the history of physical beauty in Western art and thought from antiquity to the eighteenth century. Bringing together foundational texts and newly translated works accompanied by scholarly commentaries, this volume explores how the human body was understood as bot...
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| description | Beauty: The Body as Artefact traces the history of physical beauty in Western art and thought from antiquity to the eighteenth century. Bringing together foundational texts and newly translated works accompanied by scholarly commentaries, this volume explores how the human body was understood as both a product of nature and an artistic creation. Examining the intersections of aesthetics, art theory, medical practices and cosmetics, it reveals how ideals of beauty and beautification shaped conceptions of gender, the body and artistic creation. The book focuses on the early modern period, when the cosmetic transformation of the body became closely associated with artistic imagery and techniques. Drawing on art-historical, philosophical and cultural perspectives, the volume presents key writings by figures from Cicero and Alberti to Behn and Hogarth, highlighting shifting notions of imitation, ornament and naturalness. Suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars in art history, cultural history and gender studies, Beauty: The Body as Artefact offers a framework for understanding physical beauty as a historical and artistic category at the intersection of image, body and knowledge. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1761932026-06-04T05:50:30Z Beauty: The Body as Artefact Sammern, Romana Saviello, Julia Art history Early modern aesthetics Cosmetic practices Gender representation Medical humanities Imitation and ornament Historical beauty theories thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history Beauty: The Body as Artefact traces the history of physical beauty in Western art and thought from antiquity to the eighteenth century. Bringing together foundational texts and newly translated works accompanied by scholarly commentaries, this volume explores how the human body was understood as both a product of nature and an artistic creation. Examining the intersections of aesthetics, art theory, medical practices and cosmetics, it reveals how ideals of beauty and beautification shaped conceptions of gender, the body and artistic creation. The book focuses on the early modern period, when the cosmetic transformation of the body became closely associated with artistic imagery and techniques. Drawing on art-historical, philosophical and cultural perspectives, the volume presents key writings by figures from Cicero and Alberti to Behn and Hogarth, highlighting shifting notions of imitation, ornament and naturalness. Suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars in art history, cultural history and gender studies, Beauty: The Body as Artefact offers a framework for understanding physical beauty as a historical and artistic category at the intersection of image, body and knowledge. 2026-05-05T05:14:24Z 2026-05-05T05:14:24Z 2026-05-04T08:54:31Z 2026 book ONIX_20260429T161217_9781040511527_19 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/112862 9781040511527 9781003464846 9781040748022 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/176193 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/112862/1/9781040511527.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/112862/1/9781040511527.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003464846 10.4324/9781003464846 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Austrian Science Fund (FWF) 0bdd30b8-28cc-4e2d-bd69-6cabb77b36d4 9781040511527 9781003464846 9781040748022 Routledge 404 Oxford [...] open access |
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| topic | Art history Early modern aesthetics Cosmetic practices Gender representation Medical humanities Imitation and ornament Historical beauty theories thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history |
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