The materiality of beauty : approaches, methods, and problems in the field of beauty studies
- As is well known, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder and what is considered beautiful is contextual. The itinerant symposium "Medicine, Beauty, and the Body: Materials, Texts and Artifacts" which took place from September 24 to 28, 2023 in Innsbruck, Salzburg and Vienna explored this topic in an interdisciplinary way and examined the intertwining of beauty, health and medicine from antiquity to early modern Europe. The event was a cooperation between the programme "Figurations of Transitions" of the inter-university institution Science and Art of the Paris-Lodron-University Salzburg and the University Mozarteum in Salzburg, Schloss Ambras and the Museumsverband Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. Not only the sheer diversity of sources in the field of historical beauty cultures became apparent, but also their circulation and transformation through time and space as well as their significance as social, political, religious, and economic variables. The practical approach of the event in particular showed new paths in the field of historical beauty studies.
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| Author: | Lisa Brunner |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-820903 |
| URL: | http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:at:at-ubs:3-31555 |
| URL: | https://transition.hypotheses.org/2155 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25598/transitionen-2023-5 |
| ISSN: | 2702-918X |
| Parent Title (German): | Figurationen des Übergangs : Schriften zu Wissenschaft und Kunst |
| Publisher: | Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg, Universität Mozarteum |
| Place of publication: | Salzburg |
| Document Type: | Part of Periodical |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2024/02/07 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2023/12/19 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2024/02/14 |
| GND Keyword: | Schönheit; Gesundheit; Medizin; Geschichte |
| Volume: | 2023 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Page Number: | 4 ungezählte Seiten |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / Figurationen des Übergangs | |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / Tagungsberichte | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
