Aux origines de l’esthetique

Le gout de la laideur au seuil de la modernite

by Diane Robin

Book cover: Aux origines de l’esthetique

Extent: 411 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Perspectives comparatistes

Series volume number: 99, 2

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(July 2021)

ISBN: 9782406111306

Price: $58.00

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Hardback (Published)

(July 2021)

ISBN: 9782406111313

Price: $119.00

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Despised since ancient times, ugliness gains unprecedented appeal among early modern writers and painters. Subverting all norms, they value the beauty of deformity and, by extolling the paradoxical pleasure of mimesis, they helped create a new subjectivity.

  • By (author) Diane Robin