Theories of ugliness : an unseemly aesthetic history /

Why has our preoccupation with concepts, standards and theories of the beautiful not resulted in a correspondingly comprehensive theoretical treatment of the ugly? Theories of Ugliness remedies this by gathering and scrutinizing ideas of the ugly and unsightly from across the history of Western aest...

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Main Author:	Roche, Mark William (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2025].
Subjects:	Ugliness > Philosophy. Theory (Philosophy) Aesthetics, Modern. Philosophy, German. Aesthetics > History.