Ugliness: The Non-beautiful in Art and Theory

Table of Contents:
Andrei Pop and Mechtild Widrich, Rethinking Ugliness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Politics of Ugliness Gretchen E. Henderson, The Ugly Face Club: A Case Study in the Tangled Politics and Aesthetics of Deformity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Suzannah Biernoff, The Face of War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brandon Taylor, Picasso and the Psychoanalysts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mechtild Widrich, The ‘Ugliness’ of the Avant-garde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Experience of Ugliness Edward Payne, Ribera’s Grotesque Heads: Between Anatomical Study and Cultural Curiosity . . . . . Frédérique Desbuissons, The Studio and the Kitchen: Culinary Ugliness as Pictorial Stigmatisation in Nineteenth-Century France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kathryn Simpson, I’m Ugly Because You Hate Me: Ugliness and Negative Empathy in Oskar Kokoschka’s Early Self-Portraiture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adele Tan, From Political Travesties to Aesthetic Justice – the Ugly in Teo Eng Seng’s D Cells . . . . The Theory of Ugliness Andrei Pop, Can Beauty and Ugliness Coexist? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kassandra Nakas, Putrefied, Deliquescent, Amorphous: The ‘Liquefying’ Rhetoric of Ugliness . . . . . Odeta Žukauskien?, Orderly Ugliness, Anamorphosis and Visionary Worlds. Jurgis Baltrušaitis’ Contribution to Art History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Three Definitions of Ugliness (1765, 1843, 1882) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

About the Author :
Andrei Pop is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Mechtild Widrich is Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of architecture, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Review :
'Though ugliness as a concept has been discussed since antiquity and again in the eighteenth century, and was the subject of a notable book by Karl Rosenkranz in 1853, this volume is the first in modern times to focus on the subject. It is notable for an outstanding introduction and a wide-ranging group of essays by well-established and emerging scholars on different aspects of the subject. This volume is a major contribution to the study of aesthetics, and I am certain it will have an important effect on the whole field.' David Bindman, Durning-Lawrence Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University College London, UK, and Visiting Fellow, Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, USA 'Ugliness offers an enticing prospect - ' Mary Midgley, moral philosopher, UK