Beautiful Ugliness ? Christianity, Modernity, and the Arts
Christianity, Modernity, and the Arts
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Product details:
- Publisher MR ? University of Notre Dame Press
- Date of Publication 31 October 2023
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9780268207014
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages520 pages
- Size 242x166x43 mm
- Weight 1176 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 63 Illustrations, color; 2 Diagrams 550
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This book probes the intersection of the beautiful and the ugly, offering a systematic framework to understand, interpret, and evaluate how ugliness can contribute to beautiful art.
Many great artworks include elements of ugliness: repugnant content, disproportionate forms, unresolved dissonance, and unintegrated parts. Mark William Roche?s authoritative monograph Beautiful Ugliness: Christianity, Modernity, and the Arts challenges current practices of the dominant aesthetic schools by exploring the role of ugliness in art and literature. Roche offers a comprehensive and unique framework that integrates philosophical and theological reflection, intellectual-historical analysis, and interpretations of a large number of works from the arts. The study is driven by the recognition that, though ugliness is usually understood as the opposite of beauty, ugliness nonetheless contributes significantly to the beauty of many artworks.
Roche?s analysis unfolds in three parts. The first offers a refreshing conceptual analysis of ugliness in art. The second considers the history of ugliness in art and literature, with special attention to its role in Christian art and its central place in modern and contemporary art. The third synthesizes earlier material, offering a taxonomy of beautiful ugliness derived from Hegelian philosophical categories. Roche mesmerizes the reader with an extraordinary range of literary scholarship and expertise, with a particular focus on English, Latin, and German literature, and with a broad range of analyzed phenomena, including fine arts, architecture, and music.
Including 63 color illustrations, Beautiful Ugliness will draw in readers from multiple disciplines as well as those from beyond the academy who wish to make sense of today?s complex art world.
"Roche?s erudition is not easily matched, not only in the study of Hegel?s philosophy, but also in literature and the arts. Examples from literature, painting, music, theatre, and film abound in this book, bringing an entirely new dimension to the author?s philosophical argument." ?Vladimir Marchenkov, coeditor of Hegel's Political Aesthetics
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