Beauty has captured human interest since before Plato, but how,
why, and to whom does beauty matter in today's world? Whose
standard of beauty motivates African Americans to straighten their
hair? What inspires beauty queens to measure up as flawless objects
for the male gaze? Why does a French performance artist use
cosmetic surgery to remake her face into a composite of the master
painters' version of beauty? How does beauty culture perceive the
disabled body? Is the constant effort to remain young and thin,
often at considerable economic and emotional expense, ethically
justifiable? Provocative essays by an international group of
scholars discuss aesthetics in aesthetics, the arts, the tools of
fashion, the materials of decoration, and the big business of
beautification beauty matters to reveal the ways gender, race, and
sexual orientation have informed the concept of beauty and driven
us to become more beautiful. Here, Kant rubs shoulders with Calvin
Klein. Beauty Matters draws from visual art, dance, cultural
history, and literary and feminist theory to explore the values and
politics of beauty. Various philosophical perspectives on ethics
and aesthetics emerge from this penetrating book to determine and
reveal that beauty is never disinterested."
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