Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West

Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West Psychic Distance in Comparative Aesthetics

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Publisher's Synopsis

A study of the notion of artistic detachment, or psychic distance, as an intercultural motif for East-West comparative aesthetics. It opens with an overview of aesthetic theory in the West since the 18th-century empiricists and concludes with a survey of various critiques of psychic distance.

Book information

ISBN: 9780824822118
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Imprint: University of Hawai'i Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 111.8509
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 294
Weight: 544g
Height: 234mm
Width: 165mm
Spine width: 25mm