Aesthetics of Ugliness: A Critical Edition

by Karl Rosenkranz

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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, 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"

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Architecture Art Arts, Music & Photography Philosophy

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