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On ugliness
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TextoIdioma: Inglés Editor: New York : Rizzoli, 2007Edición: Primera ediciónDescripción: 455 páginas : ilustraciones (principalmente en color) ; 25 x 17 cmISBN: - 9780847829866
- 0847829863
- 22 701.17 O58u
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Resumen: In a companion volume to his "History of Beauty," the renowned philosopher and cultural critic analyzes our attraction to the gruesome, horrific, and repellant in visual culture and the arts, drawing on abundant examples of painting and sculpture, ranging from antiquity to the works of Bosch, Goya, and others.
Introducton |
Chapter I. Ugliness in the classical world |
1. A world dominated by beauty? |
2. The Greek world and horror |
Chapter II. Passion, death, martyrdom |
1. The "pancalistic" view of the universe |
2. The suffering of Christ |
3. Martyrs, hermits, penitents |
4. The triumph of death |
Chapter III. The apocalypse, hell, and the devil |
1. A universe of horrors |
2. Hell |
3. The metamorphoses of the devil |
Chapter IV. Monsters and portents |
1. Prodigies and monsters |
2. An aesthetic of the immeasurable |
3. The moralization of monsters |
4. The Mirabilia |
5. The fate of monsters |
Chapter V. The ugly, the comic, and the obscene |
1. Priapus |
2. Satires on the peasantry and carnival festivities |
3. Renaissance and liberation |
4. Caricature |
Chapter VI. The ugliness of woman from antiquity to the baroque period |
1. The anti-female tradition |
2. Mannerism and the baroque |
Chapter VII. The devil in the modern world |
1. From rebellious Satan to poor Mephistopheles |
2. The demonstration of the enemy |
Chapter VIII. Witchcraft, satanism, sadism |
1. Witches |
2. Satanism, sadism, and the taste for cruelty |
Chapter IX. Physica curiosa |
1. Lunar births and disembowelled corpses |
2. Physiognomy |
Chapter X. Romanticism and the redemption of ugliness |
1. The philosophies of ugliness |
2. The ugly and the damned |
3. The ugly and the unhappy |
4. The unhappy and the ill |
Chapter XI. The uncanny |
Chapter XII. Iron towers and ivory towers |
1. Industrial ugliness |
2. Decadentism and the licentiousness and the ugly |
Chapter XIII. The avant-garde and the triumph of ugliness |
Chapter XIV. The ugliness of others, kitsch, and camp |
1. The ugliness of others |
2. Kitsch |
3. Camp |
XV. Ugliness today |
General bibliography |
Bibliographical references of excerpts |
Index of authors and other sources |
Index of artists |
Photography credits
| Tipo de ítem | Biblioteca actual | Colección | Signatura topográfica | Copia número | Estado | Código de barras | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Libro (general) | Biblioteca Central UNIBE | General | 701.17 O58u (Navegar estantería(Abre debajo)) | Ej. 1 | Disponible | 240166 |
Incluye referencias bibliográficas (páginas: 441-446) e índice
Introducton |
Chapter I. Ugliness in the classical world |
1. A world dominated by beauty? |
2. The Greek world and horror |
Chapter II. Passion, death, martyrdom |
1. The "pancalistic" view of the universe |
2. The suffering of Christ |
3. Martyrs, hermits, penitents |
4. The triumph of death |
Chapter III. The apocalypse, hell, and the devil |
1. A universe of horrors |
2. Hell |
3. The metamorphoses of the devil |
Chapter IV. Monsters and portents |
1. Prodigies and monsters |
2. An aesthetic of the immeasurable |
3. The moralization of monsters |
4. The Mirabilia |
5. The fate of monsters |
Chapter V. The ugly, the comic, and the obscene |
1. Priapus |
2. Satires on the peasantry and carnival festivities |
3. Renaissance and liberation |
4. Caricature |
Chapter VI. The ugliness of woman from antiquity to the baroque period |
1. The anti-female tradition |
2. Mannerism and the baroque |
Chapter VII. The devil in the modern world |
1. From rebellious Satan to poor Mephistopheles |
2. The demonstration of the enemy |
Chapter VIII. Witchcraft, satanism, sadism |
1. Witches |
2. Satanism, sadism, and the taste for cruelty |
Chapter IX. Physica curiosa |
1. Lunar births and disembowelled corpses |
2. Physiognomy |
Chapter X. Romanticism and the redemption of ugliness |
1. The philosophies of ugliness |
2. The ugly and the damned |
3. The ugly and the unhappy |
4. The unhappy and the ill |
Chapter XI. The uncanny |
Chapter XII. Iron towers and ivory towers |
1. Industrial ugliness |
2. Decadentism and the licentiousness and the ugly |
Chapter XIII. The avant-garde and the triumph of ugliness |
Chapter XIV. The ugliness of others, kitsch, and camp |
1. The ugliness of others |
2. Kitsch |
3. Camp |
XV. Ugliness today |
General bibliography |
Bibliographical references of excerpts |
Index of authors and other sources |
Index of artists |
Photography credits
In a companion volume to his "History of Beauty," the renowned philosopher and cultural critic analyzes our attraction to the gruesome, horrific, and repellant in visual culture and the arts, drawing on abundant examples of painting and sculpture, ranging from antiquity to the works of Bosch, Goya, and others.