Description
| Product ID: | 9780674088122 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Our Aesthetic Categories |
| Subtitle: | Zany, Cute, Interesting |
| Authors: | Author: Sianne Ngai |
| Page Count: | 344 |
| Subjects: | Theory of art, Theory of art, Semiotics / semiology, Philosophy: aesthetics, Semiotics / semiology, Philosophy: aesthetics |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture, dominating the look of its art and commodities as well as our ways of speaking about the ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire. In this study Ngai offers an aesthetic theory for the hypercommodified, mass-mediated, performance-driven world of late capitalism. |
| Imprint Name: | Harvard University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Harvard University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-10-05 |