Ugliness A CULTURAL HISTORY By GRETCHEN E. HENDERSON 美妙的醜陋

美妙的醜陋

• 作者： （美）格雷琴·亨德森
• 出版社：中信出版社
• 出版日期：2018/05/01
• 語言：簡體中文

美乏善可陳，丑有無限可能。《美妙的丑陋》是一部深入探討「丑」的文化史全新力作。丑陋似乎可以修飾任何事物：丑陋的面孔，丑陋的歌聲，丑陋的建築，丑陋的味道，丑陋的作品……但它又不止於這些關聯性，在與這些關聯性的周旋中還帶來了一些改變。本書細數歷史中被貼上「丑陋」標簽的個體和群體，他們各自以不同的形式反抗社會定俗，挑戰主流審美，突破偏見壓力，為美與丑的灰色地帶創造更多的可能性。本書還跨越不同的感官界限，分別從視覺、聽覺、嗅覺、味覺和觸覺各方面追溯與丑陋有關的文化姿態，通過整合不同的丑陋感官體驗，對丑陋進行了一次跨時空、跨領域的文化探索。



格雷琴·亨德森，生於舊金山。哥倫比亞大學藝術碩士，密蘇里大學博士。現為美國喬治敦大學講師、加州大學助理研究員，並受多所院校邀請講授創意寫作課程。亨德森的學識研究跨越文學、藝術、音樂、殘疾研究、性別研究等多個領域，目前已出版多部小說、詩歌、樂評以及文化史作品。

Ugliness

A CULTURAL HISTORY

883

GRETCHEN E. HENDERSON

Distributed for Reaktion Books

224 pages | 60 halftones | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 2015

Ugly as sin, the ugly duckling—or maybe you fell out of the ugly tree? Let’s face it, we’ve all used the word “ugly” to describe someone we’ve seen—hopefully just in our private thoughts—but have we ever considered how slippery the term can be, indicating anything from the slightly unsightly to the… Read More

• CONTENTS
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Introduction: Pretty Ugly: A Question of Culture

One
Ugly Ones: Uncomfortable Anomalies

Polyphemus: ‘A Monster of a Main’
Dame Ragnell: ‘She Was a Loathly One!”
A Grotesque Old Woman: ‘The Ugly Duchess’
William Hay: ‘Never Was, Nor Will Be, a Member of the Ugly Club’
Julia Pastrana: ‘The Ugliest Woman in the World’
Orlan: ‘A Beautiful Woman who is Deliberately Becoming Ugly.”
Ugly Ones: Uncomfortably Grouped

Two
Ugly Groups: Resisting Classification

Monsters and Monstrosities: Bordering Uglies
Outcasts and Outward Signs: Signifying Uglies
Primitives and Venuses: Colonizing Uglies
Broken Faces and Degenerate Bodies: Militarizing Uglies
Ugly Laws and Ugly Dolls: Legislating Uglies
Uglies United? Commercializing Ugly Groups

Three
Ugly Senses: Transgressing Perceived Borders

Ugly Sight: Seeing Is Believing?
Ugly Sound: Do You Hear What I Hear?
Ugly Smell: A Nose for Trouble?
Ugly Taste: Are You What You Eat?
Ugly Touch: Do You Touch?
Sixth Sense: Feeling is Believing?

Epilogue: Ugly Us: A Cultural Quest?

References
Acknowledgements and Photo Acknowledgements
Index