Author : Hannah Freed-Thall
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190201029
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Book Synopsis Spoiled Distinctions by : Hannah Freed-Thall
Download or read book Spoiled Distinctions written by Hannah Freed-Thall and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Spoiled Distinctions' charts 20th-century experiments in the aesthetics of the ordinary, arguing that Proust and his literary and philosophical successors (Francis Ponge, Nathalie Sarraute, Yasmina Reza, Pierre Bourdieu, and Roland Barthes, among others) multiply strategies for reading and valuing the everyday. These authors explore the unsophisticated side of aesthetic experience. Alert to the ways in which the hunger for distinction shapes mundane acts of seeing and feeling, they strive to imagine less exclusive practices of art-making and of aesthetic perception.