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Ugliness
The Non-beautiful in Art and Theory
Ugliness
The Non-beautiful in Art and Theory
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Table of Contents
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) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Product details
Published | 18 Dec 2013 |
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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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