Ugliness
The Non-beautiful in Art and Theory
Published on 20. December 2013
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-1-78076-645-4 (ISBN)
Description
Ugliness is very much alive in the history of art. Drawing across disciplinary and cultural boundaries, the writers of this volume illuminate 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.
Reviews / Votes
'Though ugliness as a concept has been discussed since antiquity and again in the eighteenth century, and was the subject of a notable book by Karl Rosenkranz in 1853, this volume is the first in modern times to focus on the subject. It is notable for an outstanding introduction and a wide-ranging group of essays by well-established and emerging scholars on different aspects of the subject. This volume is a major contribution to the study of aesthetics, and I am certain it will have an important effect on the whole field.' David Bindman, Durning-Lawrence Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University College London, UK, and Visiting Fellow, Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, USA 'Ugliness offers an enticing prospect - ' Mary Midgley, moral philosopher, UKMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
71 bw integrated
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
665 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78076-645-4 (9781780766454)
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Persons
Andrei Pop is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Basel, Switzerland.
Mechtild Widrich is Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of architecture, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Mechtild Widrich is Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of architecture, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Content
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 . . . . .
Frederique 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 Zukauskien?, Orderly Ugliness, Anamorphosis and Visionary Worlds. Jurgis Baltrusaitis' 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 . . . . .
Frederique 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 Zukauskien?, Orderly Ugliness, Anamorphosis and Visionary Worlds. Jurgis Baltrusaitis' Contribution to Art History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Three Definitions of Ugliness (1765, 1843, 1882) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .