Tatjana Rozman, M.A.
1. 12. 2016 at 5:00 PM

Disgust, fear and anxiety as an aesthetic form
Just as aesthetic pleasure has its place, which is to some extent a constant of historical development, so too has the opposite of beauty, expressed through the horrific and ugly, played its part in the past. What message do discomfort and anxiety carry, and what role does anti-aestheticism play in contemporary art? Why and, above all, how to talk about the aesthetics of the ugly?
Key highlights of the topic:

J. Delimeau; The Culture of Fear and Anxiety in the History of Western Civilization
Medieval iconography of death; the death dance, the stigmatization of human corporeality and sensuality
Anti-aestheticism in modernism