Our Aesthetic Categories

Our Aesthetic Categories
Author: Sianne Ngai
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Aesthetics, Modern
ISBN: 9780674046580

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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 radiant 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: Aesthetics, Modern
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - 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: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-08-02 - Publisher: National Geographic Books

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A collection that tracks the astonishing impact of one vernacular aesthetic category—the cute—on postwar and contemporary art. The Cute tracks the astonishi
Modern Japanese Aesthetics
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Michael F. Marra
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-09-30 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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Modern Japanese Aesthetics is the first work in English on the history of the Japanese philosophy of art, from its inception in the 1870s to the present. In add