Английская Википедия:Helen Huss Parkhurst
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use American English Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox academic Helen Huss Parkhurst (January 3, 1887 – April 14, 1959) was an American philosopher of art who published two aesthetics books, Beauty: An Interpretation of Art and the Imaginative Life (1930) and Cathedral: A Gothic Pilgrimage (1936). She was a professor at Barnard College for decades.
Biography
Helen Huss Parkhurst was born in New York City on January 3, 1887.[1] She was one of the five children of Mary Sophie (née Huss) and Howard Elmore Parkhurst, the former of whom was the older sister of composer Henry Holden Huss.[2] She studied at Dwight-Englewood School in nearby Englewood, New Jersey, and she graduated as part of the Class of 1905.[3] After receiving her AB and MA at Bryn Mawr College, she continued her studies abroad at the University of Cambridge (where Bryn Mawr invited her to be a visiting fellow) and University of Paris (1913–1914), before returning to the United States to study at Johns Hopkins University (1915-1916).[4][1] Afterwards, she returned to Bryn Mawr in 1916 as a lecturer in art history before receiving her PhD in 1917.[1] That same year, she moved to Barnard College and worked as an Assistant in Philosophy, before receiving several promotions: instructor in 1918, assistant professor in 1924, associate professor in 1931,[1] full professor in 1944,[5] and eventually professor emeritus.[4]
As an academic, she specialized in aesthetics.[4] In 1930, she published the book Beauty: An Interpretation of Art and the Imaginative Life.[1] In 1931, she was appointed a Guggenheim Fellow for the purposes of travelling to study the philosophy of architecture;[1] during said travels, she visited Southeast Asia where she personally observed the Angkor Wat and Borobudur.[4] In 1936, she published another aesthetics book, Cathedral: A Gothic Pilgrimage.[6][4]
Parkhurst died on April 14, 1959 in New York City.[4]
Publications
- Beauty: An Interpretation of Art and the Imaginative Life (1930)[7][8][9][10]
- Cathedral: A Gothic Pilgrimage (1936)[11][12]
References
- Английская Википедия
- 1887 births
- 1959 deaths
- 20th-century American philosophers
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- Bryn Mawr College alumni
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- University of Paris alumni
- Johns Hopkins University alumni
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