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Aesthetics of Discomfort

Hardcover • 2016 • 1. edition

Aesthetics of Discomfort

By Frederick Aldama, Herbert Lindenberger

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About the book

Through a series of provocative conversations, Frederick Luis Aldama and Herbert Lindenberger, who have written widely on literature, film, music, and art, locate a place for the discomforting and the often painfully unpleasant within aesthetics. The conversational format allows them to travel informally across many centuries and many art forms. They have much to tell one another about the arts since the advent of modernism soon after 1900-the nontonal music, for example, of the Second Vienna Sc...Show more

The arts: general topics

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ISBN

9780472073009

Publisher

The University of Michigan Press

Published year

2016

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Aesthetics of Discomfort

Format

Hardcover

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