Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life
- Editor: Cheyne, Peter
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Contents
- 1. Imperfectionist Aesthetics, Broadening the Field and Clarifying the Definition
- Peter Cheyne
- I. Imperfection Across the Arts and Culture
- 2. Imperfectionist Aesthetics and the Inclusionist Ethos
- Peter Cheyne
- 3. Imperfection and the Unfinished Work
- Andy Hamilton
- 4. Art Proper, Perfectionism, and the Sacred Arts
- Gordon Graham
- II. Music
- 5. Revisiting the Aesthetics of Imperfection after Thirty-Five Years
- Ted Gioia
- 6. Close Enough for Jazz: Imperfection and Jazz Improvisation
- David Wild
- 7. A Social Aesthetics and Ethics of Imperfection: Insights from Karnatak Music, Jazz and Free Improvisation
- Lara Pearson
- III. Visual and Theatrical Arts
- 8. The Necessity of Imperfection: Philip Guston in the 1950s
- Karen Lang
- 9. Thai Theatre and the Interplay of Perfection and Imperfection
- Sirithorn Siriwan and Sarawanee Sukhumvada
- 10. Wabi-Sabi Aesthetic and Joseph Beuys' Badewanne (1960)
- Eda Keskin
- IV. Literature
- 11. The Aesthetics of Weeds: A Case in Junzaburo Nishiwaki
- Kaz Oishi and Yasuo Kobayashi
- 12. The Poetics of Ruins: Matsuo Basho and Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Comparative Study
- Gregory Dunne
- 13. The Aesthetics of Perfection and Imperfection in Iris Murdoch's An Accidental Man
- Fiona Tomkinson
- 14. The Triumph of Imperfection: Yeats's 'Among School Children'
- Joseph S. O'Leary
- V. Everyday Life
- 15. The Role of Imperfection in Consumer Aesthetics
- Yuriko Saito
- 16. Imperfection and the Politics of Realism
- Thomas Docherty
- 17. Everyday Encounters with Aesthetic Imperfection and Perfection
- James Kirwan
- 18. Aesthetic Imperfection and Ethical Edification
- Lucas Scripter
- 19. Collecting What? Collecting as an Everyday Aesthetic Act
- Laura Di Summa
- VI. Body, Self, and the Person
- 20. Bodies, Functions, and Imperfections
- Sherri Irvin
- 21. Imperfection as a Vehicle for Fat Visibility in Popular Media
- Cheryl Frazier
- 22. Imperfection and Beauty of Character
- Glenn Parsons
- 23. The Self, Perfectionism, and the Value of Imperfection
- Christopher Hamilton
- VII. Urban Environments
- 24. Street Art, Graffiti, and Tags: The Value of Imperfection in Urban Aesthetics
- Andrea Baldini
- 25. The Aesthetics of Imperfection and Architectural Design for Memorial Sites: Four Documentation Centres on National Socialism in Germany
- Rumiko Handa
- 26. Urban Experience as Aesthetic Compromise
- Sanna Lehtinen
- 27. Grit and Urban (Im)Perfection
- Renee Conroy.
- Index