Item Number: 136781 Title: The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine Author: Saunders, Corinne (et al) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9781137426734 Description: London-New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 23cm., hardcover, 292pp. illus. Contents: 1. Beautiful Ideas: The Visibility of Truth; Mark McIntosh. 2. Beauty, Virtue and Danger in Medieval English Romance; Corinne Saunders. 3.Bathing for Beauty in the Middle Ages; Elizabeth Archibald. 4. Posture is Beauty; Sander Gilman. 5. Beauty, Pain, and Violence: Through Lessing and Nietzsche to King Lear; David Fuller. 6. Beauty Writes Literary History: Revisiting the Myth of Bloomsbury; Patricia Waugh. 7. 'Raising Sparks'; An Interview with Michael Symmons Roberts. 8. 'More natural than nature, more artificial than art'; An Interview with David Bintley. 9. 'Elegant' Surgery: The Beauty of Clinical Expertise; Jane Macnaughton. 10. Portraiture, Beauty, Pain; Ludmilla Jordanova. 11. War and Beauty: The Act of Unmasking in Pat Barker's Toby's Room and Louisa Young's My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You; Anne Whitehead. 12. Beauty in the Brain of the Beholder: Art, Neural Plasticity and Visual Pleasure; John Onians. 13. The Pendulum of Taste: Architecture and the Rise of a State Aesthetic; Simon Thurley. 14. Beauty and the Sacred; Roger Scruton.
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