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Savoring Disgust

The Foul and the Fair in Aesthetics

Автор: Carolyn Korsmeyer

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Oxford University Press Inc

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Disgust is among the strongest of aversions, characterized by involuntary physical recoil and even n...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Carolyn Korsmeyer

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2011

страници

208

EAN

9780199756933

ISBN

0199756937

Enbook ID

04535663

Издател

Oxford University Press Inc

Теглоt

328

Размери

163 x 233 x 15

Пълно описание

Disgust is among the strongest of aversions, characterized by involuntary physical recoil and even nausea. Yet paradoxically, disgusting objects can sometimes exert a grisly allure, and this emotion can constitute a positive, appreciative aesthetic response when exploited by works of art -- a phenomenon labelled here "aesthetic disgust." While the reactive, visceral quality of disgust contributes to its misleading reputation as a relatively "primitive" response mechanism, it is this feature that also gives it a particular aesthetic power when manifest in art. Most treatments of disgust mistakenly interpret it as only an extreme response, thereby neglecting the many subtle ways that it operates aesthetically. This study calls attention to the diversity and depth of its uses, analyzing the emotion in detail and considering the enormous variety of aesthetic forms it can assume in works of art and --unexpectedly-- even in foods. In the process of articulating a positive role for disgust, this book examines the nature of aesthetic apprehension and argues for the distinctive mode of cognition that disgust affords -- an intimate apprehension of physical mortality. Despite some commonalities attached to the meaning of disgust, this emotion assumes many aesthetic forms: it can be funny, profound, witty, ironic, unsettling, sorrowful, or gross. To demonstrate this diversity, several chapters review examples of disgust as it is aroused by art. The book ends by investigating to what extent disgust can be discovered in art that is also considered beautiful.