Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West Psychic Distance in Comparative Aesthetics

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.Odin, Steve is the author of 'Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West Psychic Distance in Comparative Aesthetics', published 2001 under ISBN 9780824823740 and ISBN 0824823745.