Beautiful Ugliness: Christianity, Modernity, and the Arts Roche Mark William
Beautiful Ugliness: Christianity, Modernity, and the Arts Roche Mark William This book probes the intersection of the beautiful and the ugly, offering a systematic framework to understand, interpret,…
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Beautiful Ugliness: Christianity, Modernity, and the Arts Roche Mark William
This book probes the intersection of the beautiful and the ugly, offering a systematic framework to understand, interpret, and evaluate how ugliness can contribute to beautiful art.Many great artworks include elements of ugliness: repugnant content, disproportionate forms, unresolved dissonance, and unintegrated parts. Roche offers a comprehensive and unique framework that integrates philosophical and theological reflection, intellectual-historical analysis, and interpretations of a large number of works from the arts. Mark William Roche's authoritative monograph Beautiful Ugliness: Christianity, Modernity, and the Arts challenges current practices of the dominant aesthetic schools by exploring the role of ugliness in art and literature.
The study is driven by the recognition that, though ugliness is usually understood as the opposite of beauty,