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Item Number: 126749
Title: Ugliness : The Non-Beautiful in Art and Theory
Author: Popescu, Andrei ; Mechtild Widrich
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781780766454
Description: London: I.B. Tauris, 2014. 24cm., hardcover, 310pp. illus. Contents: 1. The Ugly Face Club: A Case Study in the Tangled Politics and Aesthetics of Deformity; Gretchen E. Henderson. 2. The Face of War; Suzannah Biernoff. 3. Picasso and the Psychoanalysts; Brandon Taylor. 4. The 'Ugliness' of the Avant-garde; Mechtild Widrich. 5. Ribera's Grotesque Heads: Between Anatomical Study and Cultural Curiosity; Edward Payne. 6. The Studio and the Kitchen: Culinary Ugliness as Pictorial Stigmatisation in Nineteenth-Century France; Frédérique Desbuissons. 7. I'm Ugly Because You Hate Me: Ugliness and Negative Empathy in Oskar Kokoschka's Early Self-Portraiture; Kathryn Simpson. 8. From Political Travesties to Aesthetic Justice - the Ugly in Teo Eng Seng's D Cells; Adele Tan. 9. Can Beauty and Ugliness Coexist?; Andrei Pop. 10. Putrefied, Deliquescent, Amorphous: The 'Liquefying' Rhetoric of Ugliness; Kassandra Nakas. 11. Orderly Ugliness, Anamorphosis and Visionary Worlds. Jurgis Baltrušaitis' Contribution to Art History; Odeta Žukauskiene. 12. Three Definitions of Ugliness (1765, 1843, 1882).
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