Listing 1 - 10 of 16 | << page >> |
Sort by
|
Choose an application
This book is the follow up to the previous volume, "On Beauty". Apparently beauty and ugliness are concepts that imply each other, and by ugliness we usually mean the opposite of beauty, so all we need do is define the first to understand the nature of the second. But the various manifestations of ugliness over the centuries are richer and more unpredictable than is commonly thought. The anthological quotations and the extraordinary illustrations in this book lead us on a surprising journey among the nightmares, terrors, and loves of almost three thousand years, where acts of rejection go hand in hand with touching gestures of compassion, and the rejection of deformity is accompanied by decadent ecstasies over the most seductive violations of all classical canons.Among demons, madmen, horrible enemies, and disquieting presences, among horrid abysses and deformities that verge on the sublime, among freaks and the living dead, we discover a vast and often unsuspected iconographic vein. So much so that, on gradually encountering in these pages the ugliness of nature, spiritual ugliness, asymmetry, disharmony, disfigurement, and the succession of things sordid, weak, vile, banal, random, arbitrary, coarse, repugnant, clumsy, horrendous, vacuous, nauseating, criminal, spectral, witchlike, satanic, repellent, disgusting, unpleasant, grotesque, abominable, odious, crude, foul, dirty, obscene, frightening, abject, monstrous, hair-raising, ugly, terrible, terrifying, revolting, repulsive, loathsome, fetid, ignoble, awkward, ghastly and indecent, the first foreign publisher to see this book exclaimed: 'How beautiful ugliness is!'
Laideur --- Monstres --- Dans l'art --- Dans la littérature
Choose an application
Since Auschwitz, and more and more frequently today, places that were theatres of mass suffering and other atrocities are becoming common features of our cultural landscape. What should we do with these places ? Keep them as they were, to remind us of what actually took place there, as ideal museums of past evils ? Or should we transform them and, if so, into which forms and according to which principles ? Which pasts do these places transmit, and how ? This volume uses an innovative semiotic methodology to analyse selected key trauma sites. The author demonstrates that these places can become, once properly interrogated, privileged observatories capable of throwing light upon the many different conflicts, forms of social control, and power relationships that underlie any politics of memory. The selfsame notions of trauma and memory become, in this way, rewritten in quite a different light : far from any kind of naturalistic definition, they emerge as painful "knots" within which many of the most crucial questions in the contemporary world are intertwined. --
Collective memory --- Memorials. --- Museums --- Psychic trauma --- Semiotics. --- Social aspects. --- Mémoire collective --- Traumatisme psychique --- Musées --- Social aspects --- Aspect social --- Aspect social. --- Mémoire collective --- Musées
Choose an application
Translating and interpreting. --- Traduction et interprétation --- Vertalen en interculturele communicatie --- #KVHA:Vertaalwetenschap --- Translating and interpreting --- Interpretation and translation --- Interpreting and translating --- Language and languages --- Literature --- Translation and interpretation --- Translators --- Translating --- Eco, Umberto --- Translations --- History and criticism. --- Translation science --- Vertaalwetenschap. --- Vertalen en interculturele communicatie. --- Literatuur, muziek en beeldende kunst/grafiek (kennisdomein)
Choose an application
Choose an application
Choose an application
Aesthetics. --- Art --- Art --- Art --- Beauty. --- Bellesa personal. --- Estetik. --- Estètica. --- Konst --- Konsthistoria. --- Skönhet. --- Filosofia. --- History. --- Philosophy. --- Filosofi.
Choose an application
Choose an application
Choose an application
Reflections on how the idea of catalogs has changed over the centuries and how, from one period to another, it has expressed the spirit of the times. Companion to the author's History of beauty and On ugliness
Choose an application
Aesthetics --- Art and philosophy --- Art --- History --- Philosophy
Listing 1 - 10 of 16 | << page >> |
Sort by
|