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

dc.contributor.upauthorKistner, Ulrike
dc.date.accessioned2009-05-28T08:23:27Z
dc.date.available2009-05-28T08:23:27Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractThe 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.abstractDas 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.citationKistner, 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.issn0258-3542
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/10231
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_US
dc.rightsArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_US
dc.subjectThe beautifulen_US
dc.subjectThe uglyen_US
dc.subject.lcshAestheticism (Literature)en
dc.subject.lcshArt, Africanen
dc.subject.lcshSublime, Theen
dc.subject.lcshNuttall, Sarah. Beautiful/ugly; African and diaspora aestheticsen
dc.subject.lcshAesthetics, Africanen
dc.titleThe bold, the beautiful, and the ugly: reflections occasioned by a beautiful book edited by Sarah Nuttall: review articleen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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