Aesthetics of Discomfort: Conversations on Disquieting Art.
Aesthetics of Discomfort explores literature, film, music, and art that aims to discomfort readers, listeners, and viewers.
Frederick Luis Aldama. Co-author, Herbert Lindenberger.
Aesthetics of Discomfort explores literature, film, music, and art—with an especial interest in identifying a place for the discomforting and the often painfully unpleasant within aesthetics. They examine and discuss works that stretches back many centuries, especially focusing on those created during the advent of modernism (the nontonal music) of the Second Vienna School, the chance-directed music and dance of John Cage and Merce Cunningham, the in-your-faceness of such diverse visual artists as Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning, Egon Schiele, Otto Dix, and Damien Hirst.
Aesthetics of Discomfort explores literature, film, music, and art—with an especial interest in identifying a place for the discomforting and the often painfully unpleasant within aesthetics. They examine and discuss works that stretches back many centuries, especially focusing on those created during the advent of modernism (the nontonal music) of the Second Vienna School, the chance-directed music and dance of John Cage and Merce Cunningham, the in-your-faceness of such diverse visual artists as Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning, Egon Schiele, Otto Dix, and Damien Hirst.