After this course, students will be able to:
- Explain what ugliness is, and articulate in what way culture determines what counts as ugly, in order to properly assess statements regarding aesthetics, the beautiful, and the vulgar;
- Clarify the role of ugliness in contemporary culture, and thereby problematize in a productive manner the presupposition concerning the status of beauty as an aesthetic and cultural goal;
- Create a multimedia project in order to illuminate and problematize a topic from the course. The student will be able to reflect on the form and content of the multimedia project in a written evaluation of the process.
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Ugliness and vulgarity are complex and multi-faceted phenomena. Though these concepts seem to be distant from the goals of cultural production and artistic creation, in reality, they often shape our taste and imagination. In contemporary culture, ugliness plays a crucial aesthetic role. This course is dedicated to discussing the presence of ugliness in different media and genres, the theories surrounding it, as well as the role of the vulgar in art and culture.
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