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

Odin, Steve

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.

EAN

9780824823740

Publisher

University of Hawai'i Press

Published

1 April 2001

Pages

384