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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-30 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
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Language: en
Pages: 272
Pages: 272
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-03 - Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Cites examples in art, architecture, and history to consider whether ugliness is an aesthetic judgment subject to taste, considering whether an object whose app
Language: en
Pages: 305
Pages: 305
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-09 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Whatever 'ugliness' is, it remains a problematic category in architectural aesthetics – alternately vilified and appropriated, used either to shock or to inve
Language: en
Pages: 159
Pages: 159
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-15 - Publisher: Springer
This book presents a solution to the problem known in philosophical aesthetics as the paradox of ugliness, namely, how an object that is displeasing can retain
Language: en
Pages: 0
Pages: 0
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: MacLehose Press
Sumptuously illustrated and fascinatingly written - a vast store of wisdom on the nature of ugliness by one of our most celebrated contemporary thinkers.