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Pages: 265
Authors: Theo Davis
Categories: Literary Criticism
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This work argues that ornamental aesthetics are central to the writing of Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman. It explores the stakes of such an ornamental aestheti
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Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Theo Davis
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-24 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Ornamental Aesthetics offers a theory of ornamentation as a manner of marking out objects for notice, attention, praise, and a means of exploring qualities of m
Cultural Aesthetics
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Patricia Fumerton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-12-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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A brilliant postmodern critique of Renaissance subjectivity, Cultural Aesthetics explores the simultaneous formation and fragmentation of aristocratic "selfhood
Pretty
Language: en
Pages: 410
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Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-07 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Film culture often rejects visually rich images, valuing simplicity, austerity, or even ugliness as more provocative, political, and truly cinematic. Although c
In Pursuit of Beauty
Language: en
Pages: 513
Authors: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Categories: Aesthetic movement (Art)
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986 - Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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