Ugliness Research Articles

Book Review: On the politics of ugliness

Book Review: On the politics of ugliness

Sara Rodrigues and Ela Przybylo, On the politics of ugliness

Sara Rodrigues and Ela Przybylo, <i>On the politics of ugliness</i>

El estigma de la gótica. Belleza y fealdad de un alfabeto

La historia del alfabeto gotico hace evidente que una tension de poder e intereses tuvo influencia en su forma y percepcion. Dependiendo del contexto politico, el alfabeto gotico gozo de periodos en los que fue percibido como bello o feo. Es interesante observar como, aunque su morfologia basicamente ha sido la misma desde su origen, la percepcion que se ha tenido de el ha seguido un movimiento pendular que va de la hegemonia a la contrahegemonia, de lo bello a lo feo y de lo apolineo a lo dionisiaco en distintos periodos historicos.

Imagined Ugliness: Can an Orthodontist Figure it out?

Imagined Ugliness: Can an Orthodontist Figure it out?

ANALISIS NOVEL 5 CM KARYA DONNY DHIRGANTORO DENGAN PENDEKATAN SEMIOTIK

This research goals for understand figure and meaning the get in interior novel 5 cm by Donny Dhirgantoro. The method use interior research this is method qualitative. The approachment do interior in research is approachment semiotic. The Product obtained interior this research is figure and the meaning do this interior novel 5 cm by Donny Dhirgantoro the category to interior three species sign. Firts, icon, five meaning five people the already be friend since long, alway do together, and not possess friend other. Four man meaning four people man the ride carriage not buy the ticket. Second, index that is one purpose meaning togetherness, caused by already be friend since long. Third, symbol, is three minutes meaning agreement reached the in made by for sahabat (except Ian) if perforce say that ugliness or vice other people. 5 cm meaning people five friend the not never give up for the ideals of. The research can conclusion that figure and meaning that get in novel 5 cm karya Donny Dhirgantoro is: icon, that is five, one bowl, one people two sheet, three-three, one people, two hand, two great creature, four man, three kind, and three month. Index, that is one goals. Symbol, that is three minutes, one same other, direction at nine o’clock, direction at six o’clock, two worl, six the point of small, a thousand face, 5 centimeter, a thousand times, the kind third, and there’s one.

A Study on the Dialectic Sublation of Everyday Ugliness and Inner Ugliness in Poetry during the 1980s - Focusing Early Poems of Kim Jeong-hwan, Hwang Ji-u, and Jang Kyung-lin -

A Study on the Dialectic Sublation of Everyday Ugliness and Inner Ugliness in Poetry during the 1980s - Focusing Early Poems of Kim Jeong-hwan, Hwang Ji-u, and Jang Kyung-lin -

Money, Power, Equity and Higher Education

In current issue of the Journal of Medical Education, Afshar in the Editorial “The Role of Private Sector in Higher Education; From Quantity and Quality to Access and Social Justice” proposed the importance of justice and quality. (1) It seems that there are some differences between two types of private sector in higher education. One type of private financial support in higher education comes purely from private sector without any contribution of public sector. The second type of private finance in the higher education especially the type which has grown recently in Iranian higher education is a type of combination between public higher education and private sector the so called international branch of the university till recent years, and nowadays called selfgoverning campus of the university. (2) In this type of private contribution to public higher education those who have no or little money must pass very hard national examination to be accepted in the university, and those who can pay the tuition fee could enter to the best schools of that university without the exam (in the first year of the project) or by loose standards or lower cut off scores. Actually, this is an instance of the double standards. One of the elements of being equitable and avoiding discrimination is to prevent undue achievement by the owners of the power such as owners of political, religious, economic, or military power, and to avoid any distinction according to race, colour, sex, language, and etc. (3) In this type of private money absorption in the higher education, while the others have no extra way to enter to the university that would lead to achievement of scientific power, the owners of the economic powers’ daughters and sons could have a special chance to achieve scientific power by the power of their parents, and there is a different criterion to enter the university based on non-scientific differences. In such situation growing student movements against commercialism of knowledge and education which is contrary to their culture and also against fair distribution of educational opportunities is probable. (4-6) In this condition the pressure of stigma on the student with lower scores in the entrance and the other examinations is not ethically acceptable either. The other problem of this type of private financial support in higher education is the matter of distinguishing the clear border between public sector incomes regarding the private one. Some similar studies in combining public and private healthcare services showed that it is the private sector that finally has income from the public one contrary to the presuppositions. (7) From another view supporters of self-governing branch (previously called international branch, while it doesn’t have real international students, faculty members or staffs) could state some benefits for private contribution to public sector higher education such as taking financial resources from private to the public, preventing capital leakage of rich people in the country to abroad. More over, It is said that “it is better to spend your money to attain knowledge and degree comparing with those who spend their talents and academic knowledge and degree to attain money in an unethical way”; namely if rich persons tend to spend their money to improve their family members knowledge and to help the scientific sector of the public, it would be appreciated as a good practice and act. on the other hand, could see some talent students or graduates who committed immoral practices such as a case in which a doctor explicitly states to the laboratory or other Para clinics colleague: “how much do I get if I send you patients?” (8) Conclusion: Entering best fields of best universities by the lower cut off scores comparing other similar applicant merely because of parents’ economic status could consider as an exemplary of unequal opportunity for equal ones. Helping public science sector of the society via paid tuitions may diminishes the ugliness of injustice, however public sector incomes clearance is essential to make public benefit claims real and documented. In the other hand stigmatization of the student with lower scores after their entrance to the university also seems to be unethical.

What Is the Relationship between Ugliness and Beauty?

What Is the Relationship between Ugliness and Beauty?

Looking Ugliness Square in the Face

Looking Ugliness Square in the Face

Is there a negative judgment of taste? Disgust as the real ugliness in Kant's aesthetic

Starting from the recent debate on the role of ugly in Kant’s aesthetics and according to Paul Guyer and Reinhard Brandt, in this essay I state that in Kantian perspective any negative judgment of taste can exist. The ugly is in fact always reduced to the beauty and the principle of purposiveness doesn’t allow any pure negative aesthetic judgment. The disgust, on the contrary, seems to be the real opposite of the beauty, the irreducible ugly. In this writing I demonstrate that, with its presence, the disgust ensures the bounds of the Kantian aesthetics against the contra-purposiveness.

Visual Expression of Beauty and Ugliness in Adolescent Art

Abstract In this article, we present preliminary findings of a cross-cultural pilot study undertaken on the common borders of education and therapy through art. We examine images of beauty and ugliness drawn by adolescents in Hungary and the United States. Using beautiful and ugly drawing tasks as a personality test was first developed by researchers at an interactive digital testing site in Hungary. However, this method had not been used as a research tool, so with the developers’ permission, a small pilot was performed to facilitate standardization of the task. The described research method is especially useful for adolescents and young adults whose verbal communication is richly supplemented by their creative imagery. Our analysis focused on themes, emotional responses in the drawings, which are vital signs that express adolescents’ perceptions about the two extreme aesthetic experiences. The use of the Ugly and Beautiful Image Task (UBIT) as an educational and therapeutic assessment tool is also addressed. A tanulmány egy kultúraközi összehasonlító vizsgálat első eredményeit tartalmazza, amely a művészetterápia és a vizuális nevelés közös határain mozog. Magyar kamaszok alkotásait hasonlítjuk össze, akik a szépség és a rútság fogalmát próbálták meg kifejezni képi eszközökkel. A két ellentétes minőség megjelenítését pszichológiai tesztként alkalmazták először a Psychogalaxy weboldalt megalkotó kutatók. Korábban ezt a feladatot kutatási célra még nem alkalmazták. A fejleszők engedélyével egy kismintás pilot kísérletet végeztünk, amelyben a feladat értékelési rendszerének finomításához kívántunk hozzájárulni. A vizsgálati módszer különösen hasznos kamaszok és fiatal felnőttek esetében, akiknek a szóbeli kommunikációját gazdag információs háttérrel egészíti ki kreatív képi közléseik. Elemzésünkben a rajzok témáival és az alkotók érzelmi reakcióival foglalkoztunk, melyekből kitűnik, hogyan vélekednek az esztétikai ellentét-párról. Írásunk végén a Rút és Szép Képalkotó Feladat (RSZKF) pedagógiai és művészetterápiás alkalmazási lehetőségeit is felvetjük.

Aesthetic study of ‘ugliness’ shown on the X-ray art fusing Radiology and art - Focusing on ‘ugliness’ theory of Johann Karl Friedrich Rosen kranz -

본 연구는 영상의학의 X레이 아트에 나타난 새로운 예술성에 주목하고 X레이 아트가 추의 미학과 어떤 맥락으로 연결되었는가를 고찰한 것이다. 인간의 몸 내부는 1895년 뢴트겐이 X레이를 발견하기 이전까지는 직접 해부를 함으로써 관찰할 수밖에 없었다. 그러나 X레이를 통해 각종 피사체의 내부를 투사하여 봄으로써 의사에게도 예술적 창발성과 상상력을 자극하게 되었다. 이후 X레이는 디지털시대가 도래하면서 ‘CT’, ‘MRI’, ‘초음파 검사’ 등으로 성능과 진단기술이 더욱 상승하게 된다. 본 연구는 영상의학의 개념, 역사, 종류, X레이 아트의 탄생과 기법에 대해 이론적으로 고찰하고 X-레이 아트와 추의 미학적 양상을 분석하였다.BR X레이 사진은 섬뜩하고, 혐오스럽고, 역겹고, 초라하고, 우스꽝스러운 그로테스크 미학이다. 그러나 연구자는 X레이 사진을 역설적인 미의 단계로 환원되고 승화시키는 추의 미학적 동력에 주목하였다. 추의 미학의 핵심은 로젠크란츠가 주장한 무형태·불균제·부조화와 같은 몰형식성과 표현의 부정확성, 정신적 자유의 부정에 근거하는 왜곡이다. 왜곡을 다시 구분하면 비속, 혐오, 희화이다. 본 연구는 추의 미학을 고찰하기 위해 국내 외의 X레이 아트와 X레이를 광고비주얼로 사용한 광고작품 100여 점 중 상징적인 24점을 선택하여 분석하였다.BR 연구 결과, 추의 미학은 X레이 아트가 추구하는 정신과 맞닿아 있고 몰형식성과 부정확성, 왜곡을 통해 새로운 미의식을 창출하고 있다는 것이다. X레이 아트의 추의 미학 인자는 미 추의 구분을 넘나들며 다양하게 교차되었다. 일부 X레이 아트는 오히려 미적 숭고로 환원되었다. 특히 X레이가 첨단 디지털 기술을 만나 추의 미학이 더한층 새로워지고, 특이한 아날로그 변종 X레이 아트가 발견된 점은 미래의 추의 미학이 더욱 발전적으로 변화될 것이라는 확신을 갖게 하였다.BR X레이 아트는 제작 시 잦은 방사능 노출로 인한 부작용이 있다. 그러나 원자력의 평화적, 예술적 이용이라는 측면에서 보면 대국민 홍보와 예술 표현의 저변확대라는 매우 유익한 순기능이 있다.BR 본 연구를 통해 X레이 아트를 창작하는 작가들이 단순한 과학과 예술의 협업을 넘어 새로운 시각의 추의 미학에 자극을 받아 그동안 미진했던 추의 미학에 대한 연구가 활성화되기를 기대한다.

Kant on the Possibility of Ugliness

Kant on the Possibility of Ugliness

El mundo rural en los fabliaux: el campesino, el herrero y el molinero

The combination of narrative with considerably long dialogues provides the fabliau with an extraordinary sense of life. Even though the short extent and comic character of this type of narrative prevents its use as an exhaustive source of information on its contemporary reality, the fabliau may still provide interesting data on the medieval rural life. Accordingly, some of these short stories allow us to somehow soften the satiric picture of peasantry portrayed by the literature of the period, one usually dominated by cowardice, ugliness, dirt and poverty. Thus, from the approximately one hundred and fifty texts which have survived to our days, over thirty fabliaux present peasants in their everyday life, talking, commenting, expressing their opinions or simply facing reality. The profile of the medieval working class is completed in these short stories with the limited presence of the blacksmith and the miller, two key artisans in the medieval rural life.

Eclampsia and the Ugliness That Follows

Eclampsia and the Ugliness That Follows

AESTHETICS: FROM NATURE TO ENGINEERING AND BACK

Aesthetics rises in XVIII Century involving the inner and the senses of the subject. The bipolar couple beautiful/ugly is no more enough to define new emerging aesthetic experiences of agreeable, charming, interesting, sublime... Traditional models of Perfection (based on metron, nomos, logos, eurhythmy, symmetry, once centrepieces of the metaphysics of beauty) are soon overruled: irrational, disgusting, ugliness, darkness, mystery, shadow, troubled, dreadful, perturbing gain wide and independent spaces. Time, body, proximity senses, geographic, naturalistic and technological discoveries and inventions are among the factors of this turning point that go with the development of aesthetics. Rising and growing modern science, new technology and engineering determine a deep crisis in the aesthetic vision of nature, art, world, but also offer the references to build a new cultural and existential frame. In particular, actual engineering contributes to quality of life and offer explanations and demonstrations about how and because a thing or an action can satisfy our aesthetic sense, meant in a wide acceptation. As example we use the geometry of road and its curves and we compare this with structures we find in Nature. We use curves whose curvature changes along their development. They are very suitable to show how science and technology have dispelled the classic idea of perfection (based on quite, simple, exactly defined shapes as circle or square) and have contributed to build a new kind of aesthetic taste that understands and appreciates less defined and more problematic ones, coming from different laws.

Ugliness and Nature

En aquest article , m'oposo a la concepció que la lletjor és tan sols aparent , que com pogués semblar lleig , és en realitat bell . Aquesta concepció sosté que la lletjor és només una varietat de la bellesa , i que no existeix un valor estètic negatiu en el món . En l'estètica mediambiental , en la qual em centro , aquesta concepció s'expressa amb la tesi de la « estètica positiva » , que ha estat desenvolupada per diversos filòsofs , especialment per Allen Carlson . Tal com ell la presenta : « l'entorn natural , en tant que no tocat per l'ésser humà , té principalment qualitats estètiques positives , és , per exemple , elegant , delicat , intens , unificat i ordenat , en comptes de insípid , avorrit , insípid , incoherent i caòtic » . ( Carlson , 2000 , pàg . 5) . Contra aquesta posició , argument que la lletjor a la natura és real i que no desapareix quan adquirim coneixement sobre l'objecte lleig ni gràcies a una comprensió holística sobre com coses o fenòmens aparentment lletjos desenvolupen la seva funció dins d'ecosistemes que són bells . Encara que finalment argument que la lletjor és una forma de valor estètic negatiu , llavors desenvolupament una posició per mostrar per què hauríem altres raons per preocupar-nos per la lletjor a la natura , i per tant tractar de protegir-la.

Imagined Ugliness

Imagined Ugliness

Pastry Filled With Horseradish. discomfort city – how to create it

Huge urban agglomerations of the world become bigger and more numerous. In 2000 there were 16 giant cities with population more than 10 million people, and by 2015 their number will have grown up to 21. However the biggest share of the global urban population increase falls on relatively small places with population from 500,000 to 5 million people. Within 2000-2015 the tendencies will be similar.Global urbanization engrosses more and more countries and regions. Mankind keeps on growing irregularly – population increase is concentrated in cities.It is obvious why human masses gather in big cities: the life in such cities is more comfortable than in rural area. Of course, poverty and despondent imbecility of rural life looks less attractive than city apartment and rapid rhythm of life in a megapolis. Finally, it is desire for better comfort – accommodation, activity and reasonableness of living – that leads immigrants to the city. In some cases the number of immigrants is so big that city population increases several times within the life of one generation. In other words, there are more newcomers that the natives of the city. In this case the tendency towards «discomfortization » embraces the whole megapolis. In the urban development science such effect is called «degradation of urban environment ». Tokyo and London of the seventies-nineties of the last century can be examples of this. Vsevolod Ovchinnikov describes «the Oriental capital»: «Tokyo is a hypertrophied embodiment of the problems peculiar to megapolises in general and to an overpeopled insular country in particular. This paradoxical combination of tightness and chaos, density and dispersion… Tokyo citizens have a joke that even their dogs have to wag their tails not from side to side, but upward and downward». In addition to the problems of pure air and water, transport and noise there is a tremendous ugliness of urban development. Plenty of individual beautiful buildings do not make the general impression better: «Try to find a point for panoramic picture for everybody to say: what a beautiful city! Even the perfection of Japanese photographic apparatuses cannot be helpful. You need not a tripod but at least a helicopter… Hundreds of monumental buildings are lost like a mosaic fallen to pieces, which could compose a wonderful picture if architects worked in collaboration with city planners».It can hardly be said that some definite people deliberately and purposefully came to a decision to make the city uncomfortable for living. The situation looks like an unintentional reflective reaction of a primitive living organism – it is a rejection of irritant factor. The city, like a living but unreasonable being, tries to push out its «excess» people. If authorities do not take upon themselves the functions of reason, that is planning and management, the urban environment degrades very quickly. Instead of expected welfare citizens get a pastry filled with horseradish – life dressed with many problems and oppressive discomfort.

An Imagined Ugliness

An Imagined Ugliness