Full Description
Ugliness is very much alive in the history of art. Drawing across disciplinary and cultural boundaries, the writers of this volume illuminate why ugliness, associated over the millennia with negative categories ranging from sin and stupidity to triviality and boredom, remains central to art and cultural practice.
Contents
List of Illustrations ix List Contributors xv Introduction; Rethinking Ugliness Andrei Pop and Mechtild Widrich 1 Politics of Ugliness 1 Th Ugly Face Club: A Case Study in the Tangled Politics and Aesthetics of Deformity Gretchen E. Henderson 17 2 The Face of War Suzannah Biernoff 34 3 Picasso and the Psychoanalysts Brandon Taylor 49 4 The 'Ugliness' of the Avant-Garde Mechtild Widrich 69 The Experience of Ugliness 5 Ribera's Grotesque Heads: Between Anatomical Study and Cultural Curiosity Edward Payne 85 6 The Studio and the Kitchen: Culinary Ugliness as Pictorial Stigmatisation in Nineteenth-Century France Frederique Desbuissons 104 7 I'm Ugly Because You Hate Me: Ugliness and Negative Empathy in Oskar Kokoschka"s Early Self-Portraiture Kathryn Simpson 122 8 From Political Travesties to Aesthetic Justice: The Ugly in Teo Eng Seng's D Cells Adele Tan 141 The Theory of Ugliness 9 Can Beauty and Ugliness Coexist? Andrei Pop 165 10 Putrefied, Deliquescent , Amorphous: The 'Liquefying' Rhetoric of Ugliness Kassandra Nakas 180 11 Orderly Ugliness, Anamorphosis and Visionary Worlds: Jurgis Baltrusaitis' Contribution to Art History Odeta Zakauskiene 190 Conclusion: Three Definitions of Ugliness 216 Notes 221 Annotated Bibliography 275 Index 301
