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Popular pleasures : an introduction to the aesthetics of popular visual culture / Paul Duncum.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duncum, Paul, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, [2021]
- Summary:
- "The aesthetic pleasures of today's popular visual culture - sentimental, violent, vulgar, spectacular, humorous, and many more - are roundly criticised and condemned in elite discourse, but this book shows that they are perennial in nature and an intrinsic part of what it is to be human"-- $c Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- A realistic style
- The illusionistic
- The bright and busy
- The highly emotional
- The sentimental
- The vulgar
- The violent
- The horrific
- The miraculous
- The exotic
- The erotic
- The spectacular
- The narrative
- The formulaic
- The humorous.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781350193413
- 1350193410
- 9781350193420
- 1350193429
- OCLC:
- 1255224537
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