[ePub] Five Strides on the Banked Track: The Life and Times of the Roller Derby by Frank Deford at Arts-Photography

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This book investigates the notion of beauty in participatory art; an interdisciplinary form that necessitates the audiencersquo;s agential participation and that is often seen in interactive art and technology-driven media installations. After considering established theories of beauty; for example; Plato; Alison; Hume; Kant; Gadamer and Santayana through to McMahon and Sartwell; Heinrich argues that the experience of beauty in participatory art demands a revised notion of beauty; a conception that accounts for the performative and ludic turn within various art forms and which is; in a broader sense; a notion of beauty suited to a participatory and technology-saturated culture.Through case studies of participatory art; he provides an art-theoretical approach to the concept of performative beauty; an approach that is then applied to the wider context of media and design artefacts.