{"product_id":"beautiful-ugliness-christianity-modernity-and-the-arts-9780268207014","title":"Beautiful Ugliness: Christianity, Modernity, and the Arts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book probes the intersection of the beautiful and the ugly, offering a systematic framework to understand, interpret, and evaluate how ugliness can contribute to beautiful art.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany great artworks include elements of ugliness: repugnant content, disproportionate forms, unresolved dissonance, and unintegrated parts. Mark William Roche's authoritative monograph \u003cem\u003eBeautiful Ugliness: Christianity, Modernity, and the Arts\u003c\/em\u003e challenges current practices of the dominant aesthetic schools by exploring the role of ugliness in art and literature. Roche offers a comprehensive and unique framework that integrates philosophical and theological reflection, intellectual-historical analysis, and interpretations of a large number of works from the arts. The study is driven by the recognition that, though ugliness is usually understood as the opposite of beauty, ugliness nonetheless contributes significantly to the beauty of many artworks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoche's analysis unfolds in three parts. The first offers a refreshing conceptual analysis of ugliness in art. The second considers the history of ugliness in art and literature, with special attention to its role in Christian art and its central place in modern and contemporary art. The third synthesizes earlier material, offering a taxonomy of beautiful ugliness derived from Hegelian philosophical categories. Roche mesmerizes the reader with an extraordinary range of literary scholarship and expertise, with a particular focus on English, Latin, and German literature, and with a broad range of analyzed phenomena, including fine arts, architecture, and music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluding 63 color illustrations, \u003cem\u003eBeautiful Ugliness\u003c\/em\u003e will draw in readers from multiple disciplines as well as those from beyond the academy who wish to make sense of today's complex art world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark William Roche is the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of German Language and Literature, concurrent professor of philosophy, and former dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of many books, including \u003cem\u003eRealizing the Distinctive University\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Notre Dame Press, 2017) and \u003cem\u003eWhy Choose the Liberal Arts?\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), which won the Frederic W. Ness Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50725778424082,"sku":"9780268207014","price":65.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e6362a85-7733-47c2-817e-78ac6172d42e.jpg?v=1734844374","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/beautiful-ugliness-christianity-modernity-and-the-arts-9780268207014","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}