Thinging beauty: anthropological reflections on the making of beauty and the beauty of making

What does it mean to create a beautiful thing? What is the beauty of making? This paper explores the process of affective attunement by which selected aspects of the world come to matter to our senses and acquire aesthetic agency (the ability to move us). Aesthetic consciousness (experience and judg...

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Main Authors: Malafouris, L, Koukouti, MD
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Società Editrice il Mulino 2021