Global Theories of the Arts and AestheticsISBN: 978-1-4051-7355-1
Paperback
154 pages
November 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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- Explores a variety of art forms, including music, architecture,
and the visual arts, with numerous specific examples
- Discusses a variety of cultural traditions, including the
gamelan in Central Java, gong music of the central Vietnamese
highlands, contemporary Chinese visual arts, Balinese aesthetics,
Islamic aesthetics
- Contains clear explanations of key ideas in specific
non-Western art theories and practices
- Argues that the participation in artistic practices and the experience of art are deeply embedded in one’ s sense of self, in moral action, and in how one negotiates one’s way through the world