UGLY: THE AESTHETICS OF EVERYTHING
Book ID/图书代码： 02670012B56635
English Summary/英文概要： What is ugly? One of the leading cultural commentators of our time, Stephen Bayley, takes us on a journey of discovery by skilfully weaving centuries of art and design history into a discourse on the nature of beauty and its polar opposite, ugly.
Is ugliness only skin-deep, or can something that is beautifully engineered - a B-52 bomber or a Colt.45 - also be ugly, if its function is to kill or to maim? What was "Degenerate Art" and why was it deemed such? Why are mountains seen as sublime expressions of nature, when only two hundred years ago they were regarded as loathsome things to be avoided at all costs?
Just what is the relation between tattoos and crime, and why on earth is there a contest for "The Ugliest Dog in the World"? And lastly, if there was no ugly in the world, would there be any beauty?
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 何謂醜？何謂美？評斷標準單只能外表嗎？例如有些設計製作精美的物件，卻有著相當醜陋的一面，如武器B52轟炸機等。是否隨著時間的變遷，醜也能變美？醜陋是天生的嗎？還是後天加上我們的評判標準後而生的產物？
當今頗具知名度的文化評論家Stephen Bayley，將在他最新著作中暢談此一美醜觀念所帶來的文化衝擊。
Awards/获奖情况：Ugly explores the complexities of ugliness and makes the point that without ugliness, there would be no beauty. --The Independent
... from kitsch to industrial landscapes, Nazi regalia to concrete roofing tiles, grotesque animals to poverty, hirsuteness and gargoyles. The illustrations are myriad and the smart text is littered with questions to which there is probably no answer: ’Is science aesthetically neutral?’; ’Does poverty inhibit beauty?’ --Financial Times
About the Author/作者介绍： Stephen Bayley是當今最知名的設計及流行文化評論家。在80年代擔任英國維多利亞和阿爾伯特博物館（Victoria & Albert Museum）其Boilerhouse Project的總舵手，之後成為倫敦設計博物館的執行總監。期間也替許多企業如可口可樂、福斯汽車、BMW等擔任設計顧問一職。
Stephen Bayley is one of the world’s best-known commentators on design and popular culture, and is also a bestselling author. In the early 1980s he headed up the Boilerhouse Project at the Victoria and Albert Museum - Britain’s first permanent exhibition of design - and later became Chief Executive of the Design Museum in London.
He has also worked as a design consultant for among others; Ford, Absolut Vodka, The Coca-Cola Company, Volkswagen, BMW and Harvey Nichols. As an out-spoken authority on art and design he frequently appears on television and regularly contributes to numerous newspapers and magazines.
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