Ugly: The Aesthetics of Everything by Stephen Bayley

Ugly: The Aesthetics of Everything

Stephen Bayley

272 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction art history philosophy informative slow-paced
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Is ugliness only skin-deep, or can something that is beautifully engineered--a B52 bomber or a Colt .45--also be ugly, if its function is to kill or to maim? What was "Degenerate Art" and why was it deemed such? Why are mountains seen as sublime e...

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