The Color of Angels: Cosmology, Gender, and the Aesthetic Imagination

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Psychology Press, 1998 - 234 páginas
4e de couv.: The color of angels explores the rich sensory symbolism of Western culture through the ages. In the process, Constance Classen uncovers the gender politics behind such cultural constructs as the "male gaze" and the "female touch" and traces the development of an aesthetics of the senses from medieval mysticism to modern art. The book is divided into three parts - cosmology, gender and aesthetic - and explores topics ranging from the sensuous visions of St Hildegard of Bingen to the gender codes of Renaissance literature and the machine aesthetics of futurism. Through its focus on the social construction of sensory meaning in different periods and domains, The color of angels contributes to a history of sensibilities. The book's analysis of the relationship between sensory and gender orders, in turn, reveals a crucial but previously unexplored area of women's history.
 

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the sensory cosmologies
13
sacred histories of scent
36
writing womens work and feminine
86
lessons in aesthetics from the blind
138
Notes
161
Bibliography
209
Index
229
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Constance Classen is a cultural historian whose previous publications include Worlds of Sense: Exploring the Senses in History and Across Cultures and Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell (with David Howes and Anthony Synnott).

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