Uncontrollable Beauty   1998

Toward a New Aesthetics

Reviews:
"Uncontrollable Beauty seeks to examine the changing role of beauty in the twentieth century and give beauty a kind of critical makeover...
Thus, while turning to Kant, Freud, John Ruskin, and even Dr. Seuss for inspiration, many of the writings offer beauty a fresh face, casting it as a healing, personal, unpredictable, ungovernable experience."
New York Times

"The subject of beauty in visual art has been much neglected in the twentieth century and seldom used in today's aesthetics...
This anthology includes many examples of spirited writing for readers who appreciate passion and reflexive theories on everything from Caravaggio to Mapplethorpe. Their ideas are diverse and expansive."
Communication Arts

Copublished with the School of Visual Arts as part of the Aesthetics Today Series