Our aesthetic categories : zany, cute, interesting
Ngai, Sianne2015
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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.
Main title:
Our aesthetic categories : zany, cute, interesting / Sianne Ngai.
Author:
Ngai, Sianne, author
Imprint:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Collation:
333 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2012.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
Awards:
Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Reference/Primary Source Work; James Russell Lowell Prize
ISBN:
9780674088122 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
80159