Our aesthetic categories zany, cute, interesting
The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture. They dominate the look of its art and commodities as well as the discourse about the ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire. In this study, Sianne Ngai offers a theory of the aesthetic categories that most people use to pr...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press
2015
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| Edition: | First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 2015 |
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991011528125208016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
| Summary: | The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture. They dominate the look of its art and commodities as well as the discourse about the ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire. In this study, Sianne Ngai offers a theory of the aesthetic categories that most people use to process the hypercommodified, mass-mediated, performance-driven world of late capitalism, treating them with the same seriousness philosophers have reserved for analysis of the beautiful and the sublime. -- Contracubierta |
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| Physical Description: | 333 páginas : ilustraciones (blanco y negro) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice |
| ISBN: | 9780674088122 |
