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Andrei Pop and Mechtild Widrich, Rethinking Ugliness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Politics of Ugliness
Gretchen E. Henderson, The Ugly Face Club: A Case Study in the Tangled Politics and Aesthetics of Deformity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Suzannah Biernoff, The Face of War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Brandon Taylor, Picasso and the Psychoanalysts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mechtild Widrich, The 'Ugliness' of the Avant-garde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Experience of Ugliness
Edward Payne, Ribera's Grotesque Heads: Between Anatomical Study and Cultural Curiosity . . . . .

Frédérique Desbuissons, The Studio and the Kitchen: Culinary Ugliness as Pictorial Stigmatisation in Nineteenth-Century France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Kathryn Simpson, I'm Ugly Because You Hate Me: Ugliness and Negative Empathy in Oskar Kokoschka's Early Self-Portraiture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Adele Tan, From Political Travesties to Aesthetic Justice – the Ugly in Teo Eng Seng's D Cells . . . .


The Theory of Ugliness
Andrei Pop, Can Beauty and Ugliness Coexist? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Kassandra Nakas, Putrefied, Deliquescent, Amorphous: The 'Liquefying' Rhetoric of Ugliness . . . . .

Odeta Žukauskien?, Orderly Ugliness, Anamorphosis and Visionary Worlds. Jurgis Baltrušaitis' Contribution to Art History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Three Definitions of Ugliness (1765, 1843, 1882) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Published 18 Dec 2013
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 328
ISBN 9781780766454
Imprint I.B. Tauris
Illustrations 71 bw integrated
Dimensions 234 x 156 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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