On ugliness
Book |
First edition |
Rizzoli,
New York :
2007.
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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- ISBN: 9780847829866 (hc) :
- Physical Description: 455 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.print
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Rizzoli, 2007.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-446) and indexes.
- Formatted Contents Note: Ugliness in the classical world -- Passion, death, martyrdom -- The apocalypse, hell, and the devil -- Monsters and portents -- The ugly, the comic, and the obscene -- The ugliness of woman in from antiquity to the baroque period -- The devil in the modern world -- Witchcraft, satanism, sadism -- Physica curiosa -- Romanticism and the redemption of ugliness -- The uncanny -- Iron towers and ivory towers -- The avant-garde and the triumph of ugliness -- The ugliness of others, kitsch, and camp -- Ugliness today.