Bibliograph

Beauty (and the banana), a theopoetic aesthetic

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Beauty (and the banana), a theopoetic aesthetic

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Beauty (and the banana)

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

a theopoetic aesthetic

Summary

What is it that makes something beautiful? Is beauty solely in the eye of the beholder, or something deeper, more significant? In Beauty (and the Banana), Nixon writes as an introductory book for Christian leaders, providing the reader an overview of the historical, hermeneutical, and heuristic considerations of beauty. Using the artwork Comedian (a banana taped to a wall) by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan as a springboard, Nixon addresses various fundamental factors of beauty-ontology (being), teleology (form and understanding), and immutability (transcendence and eternality). Integrating poetry and classical ideals throughout, Beauty (and the Banana)'s response to the above questions may surprise all who read-beauty is more than meets the eye

Target audience

adult

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