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Record Nr.

UNINA9910886016403321

Autore

Ngai Sianne

Titolo

The Cute [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2022

ISBN

0-85488-303-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Collana

Documents of Contemporary Art

Disciplina

111.85

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- INTRODUCTION -- THESES ON CUTENESS -- Frances Richard Fifteen Theses on the Cute, 2001 -- John Morreall Cuteness, 1991 -- Lori Merish Cuteness and Commodity Aesthetics, 1996 -- Daniel Harris Cuteness, 2001 -- Sianne Ngai The Cuteness of the Avant-Garde, 2012 -- Peter Schjeldahl On Cutism: Allen Ruppersberg, 1992 -- PARA- AND PROTO-CUTENESS -- Stephen Jay Gould A Biological Homage To Mickey Mouse, 2008 -- William Ian Miller Anatomy of Disgust, 1998 -- Roland Barthes 'Adorable!', Compassion, and Tenderness, 1978 -- Elizabeth Honor Wilder On Cosiness, or Making a Scene, 2019

Carrie Rickey Naive Nouveau and Its Malcontents, 1980 -- Friedrich Schiller On Naive and Sentimental Poetry, 1796 -- Goutam Ghosh On the 'Naive': In Conversation with Jason Havneraas and Kristian Skylstad, 2015 -- Juliane Rebentisch A Note on Camp Ridiculousness, 2020 -- Wyndham Lewis A Brief Account of the Child-Cult, 1927 -- SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION AND BELONGING -- Adrienne Edwards Relishing the Minor: Juliana Huxtable's Kewt Aesthetic, 2015 -- Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman Sex, or the Unbearable, 2017 -- Marilyn Ivy The Art of Cute Little Things: Nara Yoshitomo's Parapolitics, 2010

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Seeing Disability: Visual Rhetorics of Disability in Popular Photography, 2001 -- Michael Moon Warhol and Queer Childhood, 1996 -- Kanako Shiokawa Cute but Deadly: Women and Violence in Japanese Comics, 1999 -- Sharon Kinsella Cuties in Japan, 1995 -- Sasha Archibald Feline Darlings and the Anti-Cute, 2015 -- Kevin Young Triangular Trade: Colouring, Remarking, and Narrative in the Writings of Kara Walker, 2007 -- Nayland Blake Oral



History: Interview with Alex Fialho, 2016 -- THE MACHINE AND THE COMMODITY -- Hsuan L. Hsu Mika Rottenberg's Productive Bodies, 2010

Mika Rottenberg In Conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson, 2019 -- John Roberts Dean Kenning's Kinetics, 2019 -- Norman Bryson Cute Futures: Mariko Mori's Techno-Enlightenment, 1998 -- Mary Ann Doane The Desire to Desire, 1987 -- Theodor Adorno Toy Shop, 1974 -- David Robbins The Ice Cream Social, 2004 -- Leigh Claire La Berge The Artwork of Children's Labour, 2019 -- OUR ENDLESS CUTEMPORARY -- Jennifer Doyle Introduction to Difficulty, 2013 -- Ian Bogost The Quiet Revolution of Animal Crossing, 2020 -- Peggy Ahwesh Cut to Cute: In Conversation with Johanna Gosse, 2018

Mike Kelley In the Image of Man, 1991 -- Christopher Knight Charlemagne Palestine: Teddy Bears to the Rescue, 2018 -- Catherine Grenier Annette Messager, 2000 -- Friedrich Wolfram Heubach Remarks That Not Only Have Nothing to Do with the Expanded Concept of Handicrafts…, 2011 -- Negar Azimi The Charming, Disgusting Paintings of Tala Madani, 2017 -- Elizabeth Legge When Awe Turns To Awww…, 2017 -- Lewis Gordon Disaster Aesthetics: How COVID-19 Made the World 'Cute', 2020 -- Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy Seriously Cute: Six Artists Harnessing the Power Dichotomy of Cuteness, 2020 -- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

This singular collection of writings tracks the astonishing impact of one vernacular aesthetic category - the cute - on post-war and contemporary art.