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Ugliness: The Non-beautiful in Art and Theory by Mechtild Widrich, Andrei Pop (Hardcover, 2013)

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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, the cabinet of curiosities to the identity politics of today, the ugly has been every bit as active as beauty, 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, the object, 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 illuminated why ugliness, associated over the millennia with negative categories ranging from sin and stupidity to triviality and boredom, remains central to art and cultural practice.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
9781780766454
eBay Product ID (ePID)
178129495

Product Key Features

Book Title
Ugliness: the Non-Beautiful in Art and Theory
Author
Mechtild Widrich, Andrei Pop
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Popular Philosophy, Art Theory
Publication Year
2013
Number of Pages
328 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
665g

Additional Product Features

Editor
Mechtild Widrich, Andrei Pop
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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