Beauty Unlimited

Index

413 Index Note: Black and white illustrations are marked with page numbers in italics (366). Works included in the gallery of color plates are marked with a cp and the number of the plate (cp6). Abdul, Lida, 2–3, 10–11, 12, 23n3 Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art (Danto), 8–9, 29, 32, 38, 41 acne, 198 Adorante or Adoring Youth (sculpture), 97, 98, 99, 100–101 advertising, 205, 208–10, 211, 212, 216n71, 379 aesthetics: Chinese, 404–405; and economics , 82–84; and the erotic, 322; evolutionary basis of, 222, 268, 270–73; and feminist perspectives, 7–8, 144–45; idealization in, 96, 102–104, 110–16, 118; medical, 175–91; philosophical, 14; of race and gender, 9, 85–90; relationality in, 72–75, 89–90; vs. sensuality , xiv; of shock, 335–36; as social, 89–90 After the End of Art (Danto), 33–34 Agard, Nadema, 168, 169 age, women’s, 170, 174, 201, 259–65, 268–73, 322, 372–73 agency: of the body, 10, 12, 15, 138– 39, 142–43; Danto on, 29–35; and empowerment, 14–15; and the gaze, 14, 322; women’s, 322–23 Albani, Alessandro, 101–102, 109 Alexander Romance, 52 “All of the things I know but of which I am not at the moment thinking— 1:36pm, June 15, 1969” (Barry), 30 Amer, Ghada, 133 American Gothic (Sharifi), 366–67, 366 American Headache Society, 178–79 ancestor veneration, 393–94 Ancient Crest of Ejagham Nigeria Dance and Face of Euro-SaintEtienne Woman (ORLAN), 317–18, 317 androgyny, 254 Ang Lee, 38 anorexia, 209 Antinous (lover of Hadrian), 100, 101, 109, 119 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 230–32, 235–36 Aquí cuelgan mis vestidos: Frida Kahlo (Estebanez), 244–55, 245, 248, 252 Arabian Nights, 360 architectura, De (Vitruvius), 42 Aristophanes, 112–13 Army of Me (Cutler), 130 art: and beauty, 12–13; Chinese, 21, 385–405; concept of, 40–41; content in, 30–31, 40–42, 297–305; and disability, 6–7, 243–54; experience of, 297–305; Greek, 96–105, 111–14; homoerotic, 96–125; ideality in, 106–14; Indian, 282–84; moral order in, 77–82; Olmec, 314, 315; Phidian, 104–106; 414 Index art: (continued) philosophy of, 3, 8–10; visual, xiv; women making, 10–14, 137–57, 162–74, 293–96, 297–305, 306–36, 347–67, 398–404; works of, 31–35 art history: and male beauty, 96–125; and objectification of female bodies , 148, 149, 157n18; ORLAN and, 310–11, 326–27; and philosophical tradition, 8–10; and standards of beauty, 6–8, 42 artworld, the, 12–13, 29, 298–99, 318 Ashery, Oreet, 129 Athleta paradoxos (Zeibich), 104, 112 athletes as models of beauty, 103–104, 111–14 Atwood, Margaret, 137–38, 141 Augsberg, Tanya, on ORLAN, 323–24 Augustine, Saint, 62 Aurora Leigh (Browning), 197 Autrretrato de pelona (Kahlo), 251–52, 253 Azouley, Elisabeth, 318, 334–36 Baartman, Sara, 16, 225–28 Bacon, Francis, 144 Bahram Gur Observing Frolicking Women, 358 Baker, Josephine, 197, 203–204, 233 Bali, dance in, 17, 259–79 Bali Arts Festival, 264 Banaji, Shakuntala, 281–82, 284, 285– 86, 289 Bandem, Mandé, 264 Barbed Hula (Landau), 131 Barry, Robert, 30 Barthes, Roland, 250 Baudrillard, Jean, on bodies, 378–79 beauty: and age, 170, 174, 201, 259– 65, 268–73, 322, 372–73; black and brown, 229–30; as concept, xiii–xiv, 8–10, 19; and disability, 243–54; as discernible property, 33, 34; as disciplinary practice, 206– 207, 210; as embodiment, 35–37; feminist revaluation of, xv, 7–8; and health, 175, 181–82, 188n7; as ideal, 6–7, 96–125, 306–308, 371– 73; internal, 37–38, 40, 41; kinesthetic , 212–13; and light, 201– 202, 211; male, 96–97, 100; and meaning, 302; monstrous, 322– 40; and moral order, 76–82; movement of, 259–60; norms/canons of, 3–4, 149; and the perfect, 42; and the political, 12–13, 19–21; as problem, 7, 8–9, 29–44; promise of, 22; queer, 10, 96–125; and race, 45–64, 218–39; recent literature on, 4–6; and relational labor, 72–95; scholarship on, 1–25; and sexual attraction, 265, 270–73; standards of, xiv–xv, 14–17, 314– 34; and the state, 368–83, 385– 403; as value, xiii, 403–404; virtual , 313–14, 316, 319–21, 334–36; visual representations of, 3–4; of youth, 259–65 Beauty, xiii–xiv, 80–81 beauty pageants, 201 “Beauty Surrounds Us” (National Museum of...