Can I read Popular Pleasures : An Introduction to the Aesthetics of Popular Visual Culture on EtoBox?

Popular Pleasures : An Introduction to the Aesthetics of Popular Visual Culture by Paul Duncum is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Popular Pleasures : An Introduction to the Aesthetics of Popular Visual Culture about?

Today’s many popular aesthetic pleasures – sentimental, violent, vulgar, humorous, erotic – have a long history. Popular culture is often thought to have emerged during the 19th century, but the same pleasures generated by today’s popular culture have excited our premodern ancestors for millennia. Popular imagery arouses interest from both the political right and left because both recognize its power to inform, and form, minds. An understanding of aesthetics in relation to visual culture is therefore vital because it is a major means by which ideology is inculcated, so to appreciate its power enhances our understanding of contemporary society. Paul Duncum considers the historical, critical discourses, and socio-political issues raised by aesthetic pleasure in fifteen thematic chapters. Using illustrative examples from the past and the present and across cultures, and drawing principally upon art history, film and cultural studies, as well as philosophical aesthetics, chapters on ‘the vulgar’ explore the British seaside postcard, TV wrestling; in ‘the sentimental’ chapter, he looks at religious painting, Disney films; at Nazi propaganda, in ‘the horrific’; burlesque, and modern adve

Who reads Popular Pleasures : An Introduction to the Aesthetics of Popular Visual Culture?

Author

Paul Duncum

Publisher

Bloomsbury Visual Arts; Bloomsbury

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781350193390

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, Education, History