Category: Aesthetics

Body Prism

Brand, B. (2023). Body prism: An exploration of aesthetic embodied ageing [In preparation, doctoral dissertation]. University of Kent.

Jablonski N. (2021). The evolution of human skin pigmentation involved the interactions of genetic, environmental, and cultural variables. Pigment Cell Melanoma Research.

Jablonski, N. (2020). Skin color and race. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Jablonski, N. (2017). The anthropology of skin colors: An examination of the evolution of skin pigmentation and the concepts of race and skin of color. In N. Vashi & H. Maibach (Eds.). Dermatoanthropology of ethnic skin and hair, (pp. 1-11).

Jablonski, N. and Chaplin, G. (2017). The colours of humanity: the evolution of pigmentation in the human lineage. Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

The philosophy of Aesthetics…

Berleant, A. (2015). Aesthetic sensibility. Ambiance: International journal of sensory environment, architecture and urban space.

Eco, U. (2007). On ugliness.

Leddy, T. (2012). The extraordinary in the ordinary: The aesthetics of everyday life. Broadview Press.

Light, A., & Smith, J. (Eds.). (2005). The aesthetics of everyday life. Columbia University Press.

Mandoki, K. (2007). Everyday aesthetics: Prosaics, the play of culture and social identities. Aldershot and Burlington.

Mandoki, K. (2015). The indispensable excess of the aesthetic: Evolution of sensibility in nature. Lexington Books.

Shusterman, R. (2012). Thinking through the body: Essays in somaesthetics. Cambridge University Press.

Aesthetic appreciation -1

Berleant, A. (2015). Aesthetic sensibility. Ambiance: International journal of sensory environment, architecture and urban space.

Chih-i (2014). Stopping and seeing: A comprehensive course in Buddhist meditation. (T. Cleary, Trans; 1st ed.) [ebook]. Shambhala publications. (Original work published in 2000).

Sarasso, P., Neppi-Modona, M., Sacco, K., & Ronga, I. (2020). “Stopping for knowledge”: The sense of beauty in the perception-action cycle. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 118, 723-738.