Category of ugliness transformation within the aesthetic post-non-classical discourse
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Keywords

abject, abjection, Bataille, formless, Kristeva, Rosenkranz, ugly

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Butsykina, Y. (2018). Category of ugliness transformation within the aesthetic post-non-classical discourse. Multiversum. Philosophical Almanac, (3-4), 146-154. https://doi.org/10.35423/2078-8142.2016.3-4.15

Abstract

The article attempts to analyze the historical and conceptual transformation of aesthetic category of ugliness, first analyzed by Karl Rosenkranz, into the concepts of formless and abject, which reflects the overall aesthetic discourse transformation and its transition to post-non-classical stage. Rosenkranz distinguishes three modalities of ugliness: amorphous, asymmetry and disharmony. Thus he builds a «classical» understanding of ugliness as desired shade of beauty in nature, to further sublation, realized as fine art. The concept of formless considered in the context of the «bas matйrialisme» concept by Georges Bataille, as it arises out of duality of beauty and ugliness, ranging search for new opportunities and limits of sensory perception that meet the needs of postmodern era. The concept of abject (and abjection) studied in the light of the ideas of J. Kristeva and R. Krauss, on the base of S. Sherman and V. Ralko oeuvres. The concept of formless represented in its manifestation in the phenomenon of laughter within transgressive issues by contacting the image of women in literary works by Bataille. The analysis of classical aesthetic category transformation line allows to build a new stage of the national aesthetic thought development on the basis of «abject art» and feminist art synthesis.

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