This book investigates the notion of beauty in participatory art, an interdisciplinary form that necessitates the audience’s agential participation and that i

This book addresses a major gap in sound art scholarship: the role of audience participation. It offers a survey of participatory sound art from its origins in

This book engages debates in current art criticism concerning the turn toward participatory works of art. In particular, it analyzes ludic participation, in whi

This book develops an original theory of performative beauty. Philosophical aesthetics has largely neglected one’s own actions as a potential experience of th

This book explores the relationship between cultural psychology and aesthetics, by integrating the historical, theoretical and phenomenological perspectives. It