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Phenomenology & Practice, 2011 Ugliness is largely considered an aesthetic, cultural construct and, though infrequently defined, is often seen as the opposite of existing conceptions of beauty. This definition of ugliness, however, provides little understanding of the lived experience
Erika Goble
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The Category of Ugliness in "Historie maniaków" by Roman Jaworski
Czytanie Literatury, 2020 The article undertakes to interpret the collection of short stories titled Historie maniaków by Roman Jaworski using the category of ugliness. So far, this work has been analysed through a different aesthetic category, namely the grotesque, while the ...
Magdalena Sikorska
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Aesthetic value: beauty, ugliness and incoherence [PDF]
, 1997 [FIRST PARAGRAPHS] From Plato through Aquinas to Kant and beyond beauty has traditionally been considered the paradigmatic aesthetic quality. Thus, quite naturally following Socrates' strategy in The Meno, we are tempted to generalize from our ...
Kieran, M.
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Diabeł straszniejszy niż go malują. Lęk przed diabłem w XIII-wiecznym zbiorze Vie des peres
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Litteraria Romanica, 2022 The article analyses the vision of the devil in the selected tales of the Vie des peres, a collection of pious tales from the thirteenth century, freely inspired by patristic literature and medieval exempla. The period in which the collection was written,
Joanna Gorecka-Kalita
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Ultimate ugly: Jake and Dinos Chapman's disasters of war and the theology of ugliness [PDF]
, 2016 Ugliness is an elusive concept and has been little discussed in theological aesthetics. This article argues that contemporary culture often regards ugliness and being more authentic than beauty, and prizes ugliness in contemporary art.
Bown, Nicola
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015 Neuroaesthetics has been searching for the neural bases of the subjective experience of beauty. It has been demonstrated that neural activities in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and the left primary motor cortex (lPMC) correlate with the subjective ...
Koyo eNakamura, Hideaki eKawabata
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0226 An Icon of Ugliness – Eutropius the Eunuch
RIHA Journal, 2019 Theoretically, ugliness as aesthetic concept—more than the absence of beauty—first came to the fore in the 19th century. This contribution uses the late Latin poet Claudian (370–404 CE) to show that his invective epic against the consul and eunuch ...
Susanna Elm
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The Capacities and Functions of Using Ugliness in Aesthetic Works [PDF]
هنرهای زیبا. هنرهای تجسمیThroughout the history of art, particularly in its recent eras, a multitude of artistic works have emerged with subjects and contents that have made them seemingly ugly within the prevailing aesthetic traditions of their time.
bita bahramighasr, fatemeh khorshidvand
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City, Territory and Architecture, 2022 The article examines the reorientations of the appreciation of ugliness within different national contexts in a comparative and relational frame, juxtaposing the Australian, American, British and Italian milieus.
Marianna Charitonidou
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Problem Of Ugliness Several Arguments For God's Unbeauty Creation
Jurnal Ushuluddin, 2023 Beauty is in fact fundamental to understanding of divine being. Beauty informs of God’s perfections. Within Qur’an, the principle of tawhid which is that God is the Creator of the heavens is one Islamic metaphysical basis for the integration of the Greek
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