Ugliness: The Non-beautiful in Art and Theory by Mechtild Widrich, Suzannah Biernoff, Kathryn Simpson, Kassandra Nakas, Edward Payne, Frédérique Desbuissons, Adele Tan, Gretchen E. Henderson, Odeta Žukauskienė, Brandon Taylor, Andrei Pop

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Ugliness: The Non-beautiful in Art and Theory

Mechtild Widrich, Suzannah Biernoff, Kathryn Simpson, Kassandra Nakas, Edward Payne, Frédérique Desbuissons, Adele Tan, Gretchen E. Henderson, Odeta Žukauskienė, Brandon Taylor, Andrei Pop

320 pages • first pub 2013 • 1 edition

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Ugliness is very much alive in the history of art. From ritual invocations of mythic monsters to the scare tactics of the early twentieth-century avant-garde, the cabinet of curiosities to the identity politics of today, the ugly has been every bi...