Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting - Paperback
by Sianne Ngai
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674088122ISBN-10:674088123UPC:9780674088122Book Category:Literary Criticism, Philosophy, ArtBook Subcategory:Semiotics & Theory, Aesthetics, Criticism & TheorySize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SC93ZX7XDD
Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting
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,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674088122ISBN-10:674088123UPC:9780674088122Book Category:Literary Criticism, Philosophy, ArtBook Subcategory:Semiotics & Theory, Aesthetics, Criticism & TheorySize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SC93ZX7XDD
Sianne Ngai is Professor of English at Stanford University.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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