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# Cross-cultural perspectives Illustrated by Nanay, Bence Concise 144-page intro Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction

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> 📖 Elevate your aesthetic IQ—because looking good is just the beginning.

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## Key Features

- • **Visual storytelling:** Richly illustrated to engage and clarify complex ideas, making aesthetics accessible and memorable.
- • **Bite-sized brilliance:** A compact 144-page guide perfect for busy professionals craving a quick yet insightful dive into aesthetics.
- • **Global lens on beauty:** Explore how diverse cultures shape aesthetic values, broadening your worldview beyond Western norms.
- • **Boost your cultural IQ:** Equip yourself with foundational knowledge that sparks smarter conversations about art, design, and perception in any professional setting.
- • **Academic yet approachable:** Strikes a balance between scholarly insight and readability, ideal for managers seeking intellectual enrichment without jargon overload.

## Overview

Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction offers a concise, illustrated overview of aesthetics as an academic discipline, emphasizing cross-cultural perspectives and critical thinking. Ideal for readers new to the subject, it balances accessibility with intellectual depth, making it a quick yet enriching read for professionals interested in the philosophy of beauty and art.

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Review: this was a bit too chatty and dumbed-down for me - It's really for very young students who know virtually nothing about psychology, perception or art history, western or non-western. He is so concerned not to scare anyone away with anything complex that he spends too much time worrying about occidentocentricity. We all get it that other cultures have made different art, and that we won't ever be able to fully understand why they made the art that they did. He says almost nothing about music, a fault in my view.
Review: OK, but an introduction to aesthetics as an academic discipline, not practical aesthetics - I bought this book because I'm the sort of person who is mostly interested in science, finance, and history. I'm don't really know what looks good and thought it might be interesting to learn a bit about what characteristics make things look aesthetically appealing. I don't know much about this but know that certain proportions, colour combinations and symmetries obviously appeal to a majority of people. Unfortunately this book seems to come from the angle of a university trying to teach people critical thinking and that different things appeal to different people, a point that is very obvious to me, but despite this about half the book is focused on making the point. This is done with some good examples of how some cultures like different things to what appeals in the west. However there isn't much discussion of what sort of things are liked across different cultures, and the book seems to skip these basics and jump straight to exceptions and long arguments about why you often can't say one thing is aesthetically better than another, again something that is quite obvious given it depends on taste, background and culture. This was a bit of a shame, and I was hoping to get more out the book than I did.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 346,896 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 2,910 in Philosophy (Books) 16,770 in Social Sciences (Books) |
| Customer reviews | 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars (141) |
| Dimensions  | 17.02 x 1.02 x 10.67 cm |
| Edition  | Illustrated |
| ISBN-10  | 0198826613 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0198826613 |
| Item weight  | 1.05 kg |
| Language  | English |
| Part of series  | Very Short Introductions |
| Print length  | 144 pages |
| Publication date  | 24 Oct. 2019 |
| Publisher  | OUP Oxford |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐ this was a bit too chatty and dumbed-down for me
*by A***A on 7 April 2024*

It's really for very young students who know virtually nothing about psychology, perception or art history, western or non-western. He is so concerned not to scare anyone away with anything complex that he spends too much time worrying about occidentocentricity. We all get it that other cultures have made different art, and that we won't ever be able to fully understand why they made the art that they did. He says almost nothing about music, a fault in my view.

### ⭐⭐⭐ OK, but an introduction to aesthetics as an academic discipline, not practical aesthetics
*by A***N on 10 January 2021*

I bought this book because I'm the sort of person who is mostly interested in science, finance, and history. I'm don't really know what looks good and thought it might be interesting to learn a bit about what characteristics make things look aesthetically appealing. I don't know much about this but know that certain proportions, colour combinations and symmetries obviously appeal to a majority of people. Unfortunately this book seems to come from the angle of a university trying to teach people critical thinking and that different things appeal to different people, a point that is very obvious to me, but despite this about half the book is focused on making the point. This is done with some good examples of how some cultures like different things to what appeals in the west. However there isn't much discussion of what sort of things are liked across different cultures, and the book seems to skip these basics and jump straight to exceptions and long arguments about why you often can't say one thing is aesthetically better than another, again something that is quite obvious given it depends on taste, background and culture. This was a bit of a shame, and I was hoping to get more out the book than I did.

### ⭐⭐ Not what I thought it was going to be.
*by K***G on 5 November 2020*

More of an explanation of the authors own interpretation rather than a neutral attempt to explain the subject. In that regard its a great introduction to the authors learned and respected opinion, but I wanted to make my own mind up through just bettering my understanding of the subject for myself. Where's the other half of the book??

## Frequently Bought Together

- Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
- Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
- Logic: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

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