Title:
Ugly : the aesthetics of everything
Author:
Publication Date:
2013
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Overlook Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
272 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9781468307160
Abstract:
Cites examples in art, architecture, and history to consider whether ugliness is an aesthetic judgment subject to taste, considering whether an object whose appearance is related to something negative can still be considered beautiful.
Contents:
Perfection, or No Dirt and Mess in Heaven -- Ugly Science, or Good Maths, Bad Results -- Manners, or The Ugly Customer -- Heaven and Hell, or Cleanliness, Godliness and their Opposites -- When Nature is Ugly, or Monument Valley and I-35 -- Kitsch, or The Intoxication of Bad Taste -- Rubbish, or The Zen of Crap -- What's Wrong with Beauty, or Unnatural Selection -- Form Follows Feeling, or The Tropes Don't Work -- Advertising, or Ugliness Sells Badly.
Language:
English
