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Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West takes up the notion of artistic detachment, or psychic distance, as an intercultural motif for East-West comparative aesthetics. The work begins with an overview of aesthetic theory in the West from the eighteenth-century empiricists to contemporary aesthetics and concludes with a survey of various critiques of psychic distance. Throughout, the author takes a highly innovative approach by juxtaposing Western aesthetic theory against Eastern (primarily Japanese) aesthetic theory.Steve Odin is the author of 'Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West: Psychic Distance in Comparative Aesthetics', published 2001 under ISBN 9780824822118 and ISBN 0824822110.
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