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The cute / edited by Sianne Ngai.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Ngai, Sianne, editor.
Series:
Documents of contemporary art series.
Documents of Contemporary Art Series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Aesthetics.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (325 p.)
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
London, England : Whitechapel Gallery Ventures Limited, [2022]
Summary:
This singular collection of writings tracks the astonishing impact of one vernacular aesthetic category - the cute - on post-war and contemporary art.
Contents:
Intro
INTRODUCTION
THESES ON CUTENESS
Frances Richard Fifteen Theses on the Cute, 2001
John Morreall Cuteness, 1991
Lori Merish Cuteness and Commodity Aesthetics, 1996
Daniel Harris Cuteness, 2001
Sianne Ngai The Cuteness of the Avant-Garde, 2012
Peter Schjeldahl On Cutism: Allen Ruppersberg, 1992
PARA- AND PROTO-CUTENESS
Stephen Jay Gould A Biological Homage To Mickey Mouse, 2008
William Ian Miller Anatomy of Disgust, 1998
Roland Barthes 'Adorable!', Compassion, and Tenderness, 1978
Elizabeth Honor Wilder On Cosiness, or Making a Scene, 2019
Carrie Rickey Naive Nouveau and Its Malcontents, 1980
Friedrich Schiller On Naive and Sentimental Poetry, 1796
Goutam Ghosh On the 'Naive': In Conversation with Jason Havneraas and Kristian Skylstad, 2015
Juliane Rebentisch A Note on Camp Ridiculousness, 2020
Wyndham Lewis A Brief Account of the Child-Cult, 1927
SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION AND BELONGING
Adrienne Edwards Relishing the Minor: Juliana Huxtable's Kewt Aesthetic, 2015
Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman Sex, or the Unbearable, 2017
Marilyn Ivy The Art of Cute Little Things: Nara Yoshitomo's Parapolitics, 2010
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Seeing Disability: Visual Rhetorics of Disability in Popular Photography, 2001
Michael Moon Warhol and Queer Childhood, 1996
Kanako Shiokawa Cute but Deadly: Women and Violence in Japanese Comics, 1999
Sharon Kinsella Cuties in Japan, 1995
Sasha Archibald Feline Darlings and the Anti-Cute, 2015
Kevin Young Triangular Trade: Colouring, Remarking, and Narrative in the Writings of Kara Walker, 2007
Nayland Blake Oral History: Interview with Alex Fialho, 2016
THE MACHINE AND THE COMMODITY
Hsuan L. Hsu Mika Rottenberg's Productive Bodies, 2010
Mika Rottenberg In Conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson, 2019
John Roberts Dean Kenning's Kinetics, 2019
Norman Bryson Cute Futures: Mariko Mori's Techno-Enlightenment, 1998
Mary Ann Doane The Desire to Desire, 1987
Theodor Adorno Toy Shop, 1974
David Robbins The Ice Cream Social, 2004
Leigh Claire La Berge The Artwork of Children's Labour, 2019
OUR ENDLESS CUTEMPORARY
Jennifer Doyle Introduction to Difficulty, 2013
Ian Bogost The Quiet Revolution of Animal Crossing, 2020
Peggy Ahwesh Cut to Cute: In Conversation with Johanna Gosse, 2018
Mike Kelley In the Image of Man, 1991
Christopher Knight Charlemagne Palestine: Teddy Bears to the Rescue, 2018
Catherine Grenier Annette Messager, 2000
Friedrich Wolfram Heubach Remarks That Not Only Have Nothing to Do with the Expanded Concept of Handicrafts…, 2011
Negar Azimi The Charming, Disgusting Paintings of Tala Madani, 2017
Elizabeth Legge When Awe Turns To Awww…, 2017
Lewis Gordon Disaster Aesthetics: How COVID-19 Made the World 'Cute', 2020
Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy Seriously Cute: Six Artists Harnessing the Power Dichotomy of Cuteness, 2020
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780854883035
0854883037

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