Our Aesthetic Categories

Our Aesthetic Categories
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ISBN-10 : 0674046587
ISBN-13 : 9780674046580
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Book Synopsis Our Aesthetic Categories by : Sianne Ngai

Download or read book Our Aesthetic Categories written by Sianne Ngai and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture, dominating the look of its art and commodities as well as our ways of speaking about the ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire. In this radiant study, Ngai offers an aesthetic theory for the hypercommodified, mass-mediated, performance-driven world of late capitalism.


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