Andrei Pop
I am interested in the link between pictures, fiction, and unasserted thoughts (in hypotheses, questions, games, dreams, etc). The immediate goal is to vindicate social art history by showing how objective content outruns the egocentric meaning found in art by spectators. The distant goal is to vindicate Platonism by clarifying what thoughts are.
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Translated into English for the first time, Aesthetics of Ugliness is an indispensable work for scholars and students of modern aesthetics and modernist art, literary studies and cultural theory, which fundamentally reworks conceptual understandings of what it means for a thing to be ugly. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/aesthetics-of-ugliness-9781472568878/#sthash.ABAx8SlQ.dpuf
Review: “The great value of the concept of ugliness is dialectical. The contrast with the beautiful can be a distinct way of illuminating that notion, and with it the ideal of art as such. Karl Rosenkranz's Aesthetics of Ugliness, here carefully edited, lucidly introduced, and elegantly translated by Andrei Pop and Mechtild Widrich, shows us in detail how one might understand this contrast, illuminating fundamental issues in aesthetics and in the self-understanding of modernity along the way – a very valuable contribution to any discussion.”
Robert Pippin, Professor, the Committee on Social Thought, Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago, USA
Here is the table of contents:
Introduction:
-Andrei Pop and Mechtild Widrich, Rethinking Ugliness
The Politics of Ugliness:
-Gretchen E. Henderson, The Ugly Face Club: A Case Study in the Tangled Politics and Aesthetics of Deformity
-Suzannah Biernoff, The Face of War
-Brandon Taylor, Picasso and the Psychoanalysts
-Mechtild Widrich, The ‘Ugliness’ of the Avant-garde
The Experience of Ugliness:
-Edward Payne, Ribera’s Grotesque Heads: Between Anatomical Study and Cultural Curiosity
-Frédérique Desbuissons, The Studio and the Kitchen: Culinary Ugliness as Pictorial Stigmatisation in Nineteenth-Century France
-Kathryn Simpson, I’m Ugly Because You Hate Me: Ugliness and Negative Empathy in Oskar Kokoschka’s Early Self-Portraiture
-Adele Tan, From Political Travesties to Aesthetic Justice – the Ugly in Teo Eng Seng’s D Cells
The Theory of Ugliness:
-Andrei Pop, Can Beauty and Ugliness Coexist?
-Kassandra Nakas, Putrefied, Deliquescent, Amorphous: The ‘Liquefying’ Rhetoric of Ugliness
-Odeta Žukauskienė, Orderly Ugliness, Anamorphosis and Visionary Worlds. Jurgis Baltrušaitis’ Contribution to Art History
-Three Definitions of Ugliness (Diderot 1765, Bolzano 1843, Lee 1882)
-Annotated Bibliography
Papers
Open access: https://www.journal18.org/issue12/enlightenment-as-thought-made-public-joshua-reynoldss-portrait-of-a-black-man/
language, has only been around for a century and a half. Yet the claims advanced by its philosophical
inventor, Ernst Mach, are momentous: nothing less than the dissolution of the self into a world of sensations.
A closer look at his images reveals less an elimination of the self than a reflection of the connection
between subject, world, and others.
Translated into English for the first time, Aesthetics of Ugliness is an indispensable work for scholars and students of modern aesthetics and modernist art, literary studies and cultural theory, which fundamentally reworks conceptual understandings of what it means for a thing to be ugly. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/aesthetics-of-ugliness-9781472568878/#sthash.ABAx8SlQ.dpuf
Review: “The great value of the concept of ugliness is dialectical. The contrast with the beautiful can be a distinct way of illuminating that notion, and with it the ideal of art as such. Karl Rosenkranz's Aesthetics of Ugliness, here carefully edited, lucidly introduced, and elegantly translated by Andrei Pop and Mechtild Widrich, shows us in detail how one might understand this contrast, illuminating fundamental issues in aesthetics and in the self-understanding of modernity along the way – a very valuable contribution to any discussion.”
Robert Pippin, Professor, the Committee on Social Thought, Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago, USA
Here is the table of contents:
Introduction:
-Andrei Pop and Mechtild Widrich, Rethinking Ugliness
The Politics of Ugliness:
-Gretchen E. Henderson, The Ugly Face Club: A Case Study in the Tangled Politics and Aesthetics of Deformity
-Suzannah Biernoff, The Face of War
-Brandon Taylor, Picasso and the Psychoanalysts
-Mechtild Widrich, The ‘Ugliness’ of the Avant-garde
The Experience of Ugliness:
-Edward Payne, Ribera’s Grotesque Heads: Between Anatomical Study and Cultural Curiosity
-Frédérique Desbuissons, The Studio and the Kitchen: Culinary Ugliness as Pictorial Stigmatisation in Nineteenth-Century France
-Kathryn Simpson, I’m Ugly Because You Hate Me: Ugliness and Negative Empathy in Oskar Kokoschka’s Early Self-Portraiture
-Adele Tan, From Political Travesties to Aesthetic Justice – the Ugly in Teo Eng Seng’s D Cells
The Theory of Ugliness:
-Andrei Pop, Can Beauty and Ugliness Coexist?
-Kassandra Nakas, Putrefied, Deliquescent, Amorphous: The ‘Liquefying’ Rhetoric of Ugliness
-Odeta Žukauskienė, Orderly Ugliness, Anamorphosis and Visionary Worlds. Jurgis Baltrušaitis’ Contribution to Art History
-Three Definitions of Ugliness (Diderot 1765, Bolzano 1843, Lee 1882)
-Annotated Bibliography
Open access: https://www.journal18.org/issue12/enlightenment-as-thought-made-public-joshua-reynoldss-portrait-of-a-black-man/
language, has only been around for a century and a half. Yet the claims advanced by its philosophical
inventor, Ernst Mach, are momentous: nothing less than the dissolution of the self into a world of sensations.
A closer look at his images reveals less an elimination of the self than a reflection of the connection
between subject, world, and others.
Open access at: https://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/andrei_pop_reviews_beyond_the_mirror/
open access at: https://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/andrei_pop_reviews_a_history_of_art_history/