Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West
, by Odin, SteveNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780824823740 | 0824823745
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 4/1/2001
Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West takes up the notion of artistic detachment, or psychic distance, as an intercultural motif for East-West comparative aesthetics. The work begins with an overview of aesthetic theory in the West from the eighteenth-century empiricists to contemporary aesthetics and concludes with a survey of various critiques of psychic distance. Throughout, the author takes a highly innovative approach by juxtaposing Western aesthetic theory against Eastern (primarily Japanese) aesthetic theory.