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Ugliness : the non-beautiful in art and theory
- Title
- Ugliness : the non-beautiful in art and theory / edited by Andrei Pop and Mechtild Widrich.
- Publication
- London : I. B. Tauris, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | BH301.U5 U455 2014g | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvii, 310 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The politics of ugliness. The Ugly Face Club : a case study in the tangled politics and aesthetics of deformity -- The face of war -- Picasso and the psychoanalysts -- The 'ugliness' of the avant-garde. The experience of ugliness. Ribera's grotesque heads -- The studio and the kitchen : culinary ugliness as pictorial stigmatisation in nineteenth-century France -- I'm ugly because you hate me : ugliness and negative empathy in Oskar Kokoschka's early self-portraiture -- From political travesties to aesthetic justice : the ugly in Teo Eng Seng's D Cells. The theory of ugliness. Can beauty and ugliness coexists ? -- Putrefied, deliquescent, amorphous : the 'liquefying' rhetoric of ugliness -- Orderly ugliness, anamorphosis and visionary worlds : Jurgis Baltrusaitis' contribution to art history.
- ISBN
- 9781780766454
- 1780766459
- OCLC
- ocn871015782
- 871015782
- SCSB-9618259
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries