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Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. 232 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Withdrawn from library collection, with usual markings. No writing in text. DJ in mylar. "For a woman in the Western world, there's no escaping beauty. She has it or she doesn't. If she doesn't, she may hope to gain it. If she already has it, she will certainly lose it. But what is 'it'? Not a singular thing, Francette Pacteau tell us, but a generic term for an unspecifiable number of disparate experiences. What these experiences are, what they mean, how they manifest themselves as a notion of beauty is the subject of Pacteau's book, an intriguing psychoanalytic study of beauty that looks into the eye of the beholder and to the mind conjuring behind it. Less interested in the contingent object of desire than the fantasy that frames it, Pacteau considers the staging of the aesthetic emotion. Her book is an ambitious attempt to describe the mise-en-scene of beauty within a…
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- Title The Symptom of Beauty
- Author Francette Pacteau
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 232
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard University Press, Cumbreland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
- Date 2005-12
- ISBN 9780674859876 / 0674859871
- Weight 1.56 lbs (0.71 kg)
- Dimensions 9.51 x 6.51 x 0.86 in (24.16 x 16.54 x 2.18 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Feminism and the arts, Men - Psychology
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93038507
- Dewey Decimal Code 700.1
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