Our Aesthetic Categories : Zany, Cute, Interesting

Ngai, Sianne. Our Aesthetic Categories : Zany, Cute, Interesting. First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 2015. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.

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Abstract (English)

"The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture. They dominate the look of its art and commodities as well as our discourse about the ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire. In this radiant study, Sianne Ngai offers a theory of the aesthetic categories that most people use to process the hypercommodified, mass-mediated, performance-driven world of late capitalism, treating them with the same seriousness philosophers have reserved for analysis of the beautiful and the sublime." -- Back cover of document

Types:	Monographs
All Contributors:	Ngai, Sianne (Author)
Dossier:	100 - THÉORIE / THEORY
Collation:	333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:	9780674046580
Language of Publication:	English
Publishers:	Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
Keywords:	AESTHETICS; COMMODIFICATION; LATE CAPITALISM; AFFECT; STYLE; REPRESENTATION; GENRE
Copyright Statement:	the President and Fellows of Harvard College
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Deposited by:	Intern Stagiaire
Date Deposited:	20 Sep 2024 21:57
Last Modified:	20 Sep 2024 21:57
URI:	http://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/35799

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