Our Aesthetic Categories

Our Aesthetic Categories
Author: Sianne Ngai
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-10-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780674088122


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The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture, dominating the look of its art and commodities as well as our ways of speaking about the ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire. In this study Ngai offers an aesthetic theory for the hypercommodified, mass-mediated, performance-driven world of late capitalism.


Our Aesthetic Categories
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Sianne Ngai
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-02 - Publisher:

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The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture, dominating the look of its art and commodities as well as our ways of speaking about the am
Theory of the Gimmick
Language: en
Pages: 417
Authors: Sianne Ngai
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-16 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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A provocative theory of the gimmick as an aesthetic category steeped in the anxieties of capitalism. Repulsive and yet strangely attractive, the gimmick is a fo
Ugly Feelings
Language: en
Pages: 433
Authors: Sianne Ngai
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-01 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Envy, irritation, paranoia—in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated with situati
The Cute
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Sianne Ngai
Categories: Aesthetics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03 - Publisher: Documents of Contemporary Art

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The Cute tracks the astonishing impact of a single aesthetic category on post-war and contemporary art, and on the vast range of cultural practices and discours
The Sublime in Modern Philosophy
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: Emily Brady
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In The Sublime in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature, Emily Brady takes a fresh look at the sublime and shows why it endures as a meaningful conc