Ugliness : the non-beautiful in art and theory
2015
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Ugliness is very much alive in the history of art. From ritual invocations of mythic monsters to the scare tactics of the early twentieth-century avant-garde, from the cabinet of curiosities to the identity politics of today, the ugly has been every bit as active as the beautiful, and often much more of a reality. Why then has it been so neglected? This book seeks to remedy this oversight through both broad theoretical reflection and concrete case studies of ugliness in various historical and cultural contexts. The protagonists range from cooks to psychoanalysts, from war prostheses to plates of asparagus, on a world stage stretching from ancient Athens to Singapore today. Drawing across disciplinary and cultural boundaries, the writers illuminate why ugliness, associated over the millenia with negative categories ranging from sin to stupidity, remains central to art and cultural practice.
Main title:
Ugliness : the non-beautiful in art and theory / edited by Andrei Pop and Mechtild Widrich.
Author:
Pop, Andrei, editorWidrich, Mechtild, editor
Imprint:
London : I.B. Tauris, 2015.
Collation:
328 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2014.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781784533557 (pbk)
Dewey class:
701.17701.17 POP
Language:
English
BRN:
1000764
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