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Aesthetics of Ugliness
Language: en
Pages: 591
Authors: Karl Rosenkranz
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-30 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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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,
Ugly
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Stephen Bayley
Categories: Design
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-03 - Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

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Cites examples in art, architecture, and history to consider whether ugliness is an aesthetic judgment subject to taste, considering whether an object whose app
Architecture and Ugliness
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Wouter Van Acker
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-09 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Whatever 'ugliness' is, it remains a problematic category in architectural aesthetics – alternately vilified and appropriated, used either to shock or to inve
Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination
Language: en
Pages: 159
Authors: Mojca Küplen
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-15 - Publisher: Springer

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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
On Ugliness
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Umberto Eco
Categories: Aesthetics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: MacLehose Press

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Sumptuously illustrated and fascinatingly written - a vast store of wisdom on the nature of ugliness by one of our most celebrated contemporary thinkers.