Popular Pleasures
Popular Pleasures Today's many popular aesthetic pleasures have a very long history. Using illustrative examples from the past, present, and across cultures, he challenges the idea of any decline of…
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Popular Pleasures
Today's many popular aesthetic pleasures have a very long history. Using illustrative examples from the past, present, and across cultures, he challenges the idea of any decline of cultural standards and argues that no grounds exist for cultural pessimism. Paul Duncum considers the historical critical discourses, and socio-political issues raised by aesthetic pleasures in fifteen thematic chapters.
They include the violent, the horrific, the sentimental, the exotic, the erotic, and the humorous. Refusing to condemn popular culture on the basis of taste, he reserves critique for the socio-political ideologies aesthetics invariably serve.Art history, film, cultural studies, and philosophical aesthetics are each employed to show that the sensory/emotional lures of today's popular culture are mostly identical to those of premodern fine art. Some of these pleasures derive from our
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Potent Pleasures
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