TY - BOOK ID - 11464947 TI - Beautiful / ugly : African and diaspora aesthetics. PY - 2006 SN - 0822339188 9780822339182 0822339072 9780822339076 PB - Durham Duke university press DB - UniCat KW - #SBIB:39A5 KW - #SBIB:316.7C122 KW - #SBIB:316.7C124 KW - Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning KW - Cultuursociologie: overtuigingen, waarden en houdingen KW - Cultuursociologie: gebruiken, zeden en gewoonten KW - Aesthetics, African. KW - Aesthetics KW - philosophy of art KW - Africa KW - #breakthecanon KW - Aesthetics, African KW - African aesthetics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11464947 AB - In Cameroon, a monumental statue of liberty is made from scrap metal. In Congo, a thriving popular music incorporates piercing screams and carnal dances. When these and other instantiations of the aesthetics of Africa and its diasporas are taken into account, how are ideas of beauty reconfigured? Scholars and artists take up that question in this invigorating, lavishly illustrated collection, which includes more than one hundred color images. Exploring sculpture, music, fiction, food, photography, fashion, and urban design, the contributors engage with and depart from canonical aesthetic theories as they demonstrate that beauty cannot be understood apart from ugliness. They show how theories of aesthetics are enriched by attention to anti-aesthetics. And, by suggesting that beaty is in some sense future-oriented, the essayists propose that taking beauty in Africa and its diasporas seriously is a way of rekindling hope in the midst of hardship. ER -