Aesthetics of Ugliness: A Critical Edition

by Karl Rosenkranz

Book Overview

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, or other negative terms used it's conventional condemnation. This insistence on the specificity of ugliness, and on its dynamic status as a process afflicting aesthetic canons, reflects Rosenkranz's interest in the metropolis - like Walter Benjamin, he wrote on Paris and Berlin - and his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350022926
• ISBN13: 9781350022928
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"