The bold, the beautiful, and the ugly: reflections occasioned by a beautiful book edited by Sarah Nuttall: review article

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dc.contributor.upauthor Kistner, Ulrike
dc.date.accessioned 2009-05-28T08:23:27Z
dc.date.available 2009-05-28T08:23:27Z
dc.date.issued 2008
dc.description.abstract The book entitled Beautiful Ugly. African and Diaspora Aesthetics (2006) was heralded by its editor as a beautiful book. ‘Beautiful’ it certainly is, in a manner of speaking. The correspondence set up between its description and its title is replicated in the ‘Africa’ of its claimed uniqueness, which appears both as a claim to ‘epistemology’ and ‘ontology’. This review article argues that the book does not support this claim in relation to either ‘beauty’ or ‘Africa’; if at all, the review argues, such a claim could only be upheld in relation to the work of art. en_US
dc.description.abstract Das Buch mit dem Titel Beautiful Ugly. African and Diaspora Aesthetics (2006) wurde von seiner Herausgeberin als ein ‘schönes Buch’ begrüβt. In der Tat ein schönes Buch. Wie zwischen Titel und Beschreibung des Buches eine Entsprechung hergestellt wird, so beansprucht das ‘Afrika’ seines Untertitels in einer Ontologie aufzugehen, die gleichzeitig einer epistemologischen Funktion zugeführt wird. Der folgende Rezensionsartikel befindet, dass das Buch diesen Anspruch weder im Bezug auf ‘das Schöne’ noch im Bezug auf ‘Afrika’ einlösen kann, denn ein solcher Anspruch kann nur dem Kunstwerk selbst gelten. ge
dc.identifier.citation Kistner, U 2008, 'The bold, the beautiful, and the ugly: reflections occasioned by a beautiful book edited by Sarah Nuttall: review article', South African Journal of Art History, vol. 23, no.2, pp. 122-128. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_sajah.html] en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0258-3542
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/10231
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Art Historical Work Group of South Africa en_US
dc.rights Art Historical Work Group of South Africa en_US
dc.subject The beautiful en_US
dc.subject The ugly en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Aestheticism (Literature) en
dc.subject.lcsh Art, African en
dc.subject.lcsh Sublime, The en
dc.subject.lcsh Nuttall, Sarah. Beautiful/ugly; African and diaspora aesthetics en
dc.subject.lcsh Aesthetics, African en
dc.title The bold, the beautiful, and the ugly: reflections occasioned by a beautiful book edited by Sarah Nuttall: review article en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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