Screen LibraryUgliness : the non-beautiful in art and theory /
"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...
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| Group Author: | ; |
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| Published: |
I. B. Tauris,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | New paperback edition. |
| Series: |
International library of modern and contemporary art ;
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| Summary: |
"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."--book jacket. |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-299) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781784533557 1784533556 9781780766454 1780766459 |
| Index Number: | BH301 |
| CLC: | J01 |
| Call Number: | J01/U26 |