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Savoring Disgust - The Foul and the Fair in Aesthetics (Hardcover)
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Savoring Disgust - The Foul and the Fair in Aesthetics (Hardcover)
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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.
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