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Aesthetics of Ugliness : A Critical Edition.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (345 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781472568878
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 111.85
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Contents:
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Figures -- Guide to Frequently Translated Words -- Approaching Ugliness -- Introduction -- Rosenkranz's life and work -- Realism in aesthetics -- Problems of ugliness -- Ugliness today -- A note on the text -- Aesthetics of Ugliness Karl RosenkranzTranslated by Andrei Pop and Mechtild Widrich -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Negative in General -- The Imperfect -- [15] The Naturally Ugly -- The Intellectually Ugly 22 -- The Aesthetically Ugly -- Ugliness in Relation to the Individual Arts -- [52] The Pleasure in Ugliness -- [53] Division of the Work -- [67] Part One Formlessness -- A. Amorphism -- B. Asymmetry -- [99] C. Disharmony -- [115] Part Two Incorrectness -- A. Incorrectness in General -- B. Incorrectness in the Particular Styles -- C. Incorrectness in the Individual Arts -- [164] Part Three Disfiguration, or Deformation -- A. The Mean -- I. The Petty -- II. The Feeble -- III. The Low -- a) The Ordinary -- b) The Accidental and the Arbitrary -- c) The Crude -- B. The Repulsive -- I. The Clumsy -- II. The Dead and the Empty -- III. The Hideous -- a) The Tasteless -- b) The Disgusting -- c) Evil -- Ü ) The Criminal -- Ý ) The Ghastly 213 -- Þ ) The Diabolical -- C. Caricature -- Additional Texts on Aesthetics -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: In this key text in the history of art and aesthetics, Karl Rosenkranz shows ugliness to be the negation of beauty without being reducible to evil, materiality, or other negative terms used it's conventional condemnation. This insistence on the specificity of ugliness, and on its dynamic status as a process afflicting aesthetic canons, reflects Rosenkranz's interest in the metropolis - like Walter Benjamin, he wrote on Paris and Berlin - and his voracious collecting of caricature and popular prints. Rosenkranz, living and teaching, like Kant, in remote KÃœnigsberg, reflects on phenomena of modern urban life from a distance that results in critical illumination. The struggle with modernization and idealist aesthetics makes Aesthetics of Ugliness, published four years before Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, hugely relevant to modernist experiment as well as to the twenty-first century theoretical revival of beauty. Translated into English for the first time, Aesthetics of Ugliness is an indispensable work for scholars and students of modern aesthetics and modernist art, literary studies and cultural theory, which fundamentally reworks conceptual understandings of what it means for a thing to be ugly.
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Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Figures -- Guide to Frequently Translated Words -- Approaching Ugliness -- Introduction -- Rosenkranz's life and work -- Realism in aesthetics -- Problems of ugliness -- Ugliness today -- A note on the text -- Aesthetics of Ugliness Karl RosenkranzTranslated by Andrei Pop and Mechtild Widrich -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Negative in General -- The Imperfect -- [15] The Naturally Ugly -- The Intellectually Ugly 22 -- The Aesthetically Ugly -- Ugliness in Relation to the Individual Arts -- [52] The Pleasure in Ugliness -- [53] Division of the Work -- [67] Part One Formlessness -- A. Amorphism -- B. Asymmetry -- [99] C. Disharmony -- [115] Part Two Incorrectness -- A. Incorrectness in General -- B. Incorrectness in the Particular Styles -- C. Incorrectness in the Individual Arts -- [164] Part Three Disfiguration, or Deformation -- A. The Mean -- I. The Petty -- II. The Feeble -- III. The Low -- a) The Ordinary -- b) The Accidental and the Arbitrary -- c) The Crude -- B. The Repulsive -- I. The Clumsy -- II. The Dead and the Empty -- III. The Hideous -- a) The Tasteless -- b) The Disgusting -- c) Evil -- Ü ) The Criminal -- Ý ) The Ghastly 213 -- Þ ) The Diabolical -- C. Caricature -- Additional Texts on Aesthetics -- Bibliography -- Index.

In this key text in the history of art and aesthetics, Karl Rosenkranz shows ugliness to be the negation of beauty without being reducible to evil, materiality, or other negative terms used it's conventional condemnation. This insistence on the specificity of ugliness, and on its dynamic status as a process afflicting aesthetic canons, reflects Rosenkranz's interest in the metropolis - like Walter Benjamin, he wrote on Paris and Berlin - and his voracious collecting of caricature and popular prints. Rosenkranz, living and teaching, like Kant, in remote KÃœnigsberg, reflects on phenomena of modern urban life from a distance that results in critical illumination. The struggle with modernization and idealist aesthetics makes Aesthetics of Ugliness, published four years before Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, hugely relevant to modernist experiment as well as to the twenty-first century theoretical revival of beauty. Translated into English for the first time, Aesthetics of Ugliness is an indispensable work for scholars and students of modern aesthetics and modernist art, literary studies and cultural theory, which fundamentally reworks conceptual understandings of what it means for a thing to be ugly.

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