Cultural history combines the approaches of anthropology and history to look at popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience. From the frequent invocation of the colonial stereotype of the licentious and sexually deviant indian squaw to the fetishization of the violence committed against these women, ugliness shapes all aspects of the mediation of indigenous womens disappearances. It doesnt shy away from issues such as defining groups as ugly in order to make one culture feel superior, but also covers some less serious themes such as ugly toys or ugly as cutepretty. On ugliness the art and popular culture encyclopedia. Henderson uses a broad range of historical and cultural examples to illustrate how ugliness is a relational concept existing in the liminal space between cultural constructs of self and otherness. Hendersons totemic character is polyphemus, the halfdivine cyclops whose appearance in homers odyssey is one of the. Lets face it, weve all used the word ugly, but have we ever considered how slippery the term can be. A cultural history interdisciplinary nonfiction, published by reaktion books of londonuniversity of chicago press 2015, translated for turkish, chinese, korean, and spanish editions in 2018 ugly as sin, the ugly ducklingor maybe you fell out of the ugly tree. About cultural documents cultural documentscultural. Kathryn simpson viennese art, ugliness, and the vienna school of art history. This workshop is particularly relevant for the following gcse and a level endorsements. In history of beauty, umberto eco explored the ways in which notions of attractiveness shift from culture to culture and era to era.
Ugliness the nonbeautiful in art and theory edited by andrei pop and mechtild. Culture and customs of kenya south african history online. Stories cultural documents cultural documentscultural. The bishops had to fight hard to win themselves space for a properly conciliar deliberationand succeeded in doing so. The word ugly is used freely, yet it is a loaded term. Every human society has its own shape, its own purposes, its own meanings. Local history local history is full of colorful and interesting facts, legends and places.
Cultures and contexts is an interdisciplinary collection of primary texts and images about physical and cognitive disability in the long nineteenth century. George kennans long telegram, february 22, 1946, history and public policy program digital archive, national archives and records administration, department of state records record group 59, central decimal file, 19451949, 861. The project, directed by karen bourrier, has been funded by sshrc and launched with the help of the research group for electronic textuality and theory at western university. A notion of culture as heuristics or rules of thumb that aid in decision making is described. In western society, a scientia sexualis, the science of sexuality, was created. Far from having been themselves demystified by reality, the. Fornis 2002 eloquent and sensible book, choosing civility, is one of the more recent and inspiring additions to the literature. Especially in the opening phase of the council, the disputes between curial officials and bishops were heated, and disagreementnon placerdomi nated. Webster partitive culture or cultures a central notion of culture history is that cultures constitute real or empirical divisions of the cultural whole. These questions are at the heart of this set of pathbreaking essays in the history of the book by one of americas leading practitioners in this interdisciplinary field. Gcse and asa2 art and design, geography, history, creative and media diploma and equivalent. Culture and the historical process harvard university. Large selection and many more categories to choose from.
It examines the records and narrative descriptions of past matter, encompassing the continuum of events occurring in succession and leading from the past to the present and even into the future pertaining to a culture. A cultural history interdisciplinary nonfiction, published by reaktion books of londonuniversity of chicago press 2015, translated for turkish, chinese, korean, and spanish editions in 2018. The discourse of murdered and missing indigenous women mmiw from vancouvers downtown eastside is shaped by ugliness. The origins of cultural marxism and political correctness. Pdf in this chapter, we open up this study of ugliness by exploring. Sticks and stones the skills of the stone mason align with language to document a 30year love affair with stone.
Maulana karenga f all the evil and violent psychological and social disorders that can infect a people and that have affected the history and lives of. In such situations, the record of history is unequivocal. Dec 02, 2007 in history of beauty, umberto eco explored the ways in which notions of attractiveness shift from culture to culture and era to era. Colonialism and its impacts in the 1940s and 1950s, indigenous peoples in canadas near north started to be displaced by. Viennese art, ugliness, and the vienna school of art. This was the case in thompson manitoba, labrador city, wabush mines, churchill falls lab west and happy valleygoose bay. Henderson casts an unfazed gaze at ugliness, tracing its longstanding grasp on our cultural imagination and highlighting all the peculiar ways it has attracted us to its repulsion. Throughout the book, henderson questions whether ugliness is a cultural quest, in the end not giving an answer, but providing enough triggers to spark the readers own evaluation of ugliness and. Studying african history through the lens of cinema.
Henderson ventures on a critical journey through the history of ugliness, viewing the concept. Social norms, roles, rituals, language, music, and art that reinforce the belief that white european culture is superior to other cultures reflect cultural racism. Culture and collective violence 1 culture and collective. Culture and the historical process nathan nunn1 abstract this article discusses the importance of accounting for cultural values and beliefs when studying the process of historical economic development. From ritual invocations of mythic monsters to the scare tactics of the early twentiethcentury avantgarde, the cabinet of curiosities to the identity politics of today, the ugly. We position ugliness politically, rather than purely aesthetically, tracing its intersections with discourses, practices, and institutions of power. Since the beginning of human history philosophers and priests have done their utmost to convince human beings to respect and get along with one another. Cultural documents was created in 2006 as a nongovernmental, nonprofit and valuesdriven agency by deirdre mackenna and is registered in the uk as community interest company number sc626912. The idea and practice of malayness in malaysia reconsidered shamsul a. A cultural history, published this month, gretchen henderson traces the connectionssome obvious, but many not at allbetween aesthetic norms and cultural anxieties, from antiquity to the present day. Values are the feelings not open for discussion within a culture about what is good or bad, beautiful or ugly, normal or abnormal, which are present in a majority of the members of a culture, or at least in those who occupy pivotal positions. Cultures and contexts, 20122015, is licensed under a creative commons attributionnoncommercial 3.
Given this definition, a cultural history of the term could easily become a catalog of the grotesque. Ugliness can be perceived as matter out of place, a definition based in anthropological and architectural scholarship. A look at the way ugliness has been defined by various cultures and in different periods of history, this is an interesting read. All formats available for pc, mac, ebook readers and other mobile devices.
The origins of cultural history 1 two notions of the history of culture the german versus the french tradition the isaiah berlin virtual library aims to post, in the fullness of time, pdfs of all berlins uncollected and unpublished work, including interviews and broadcasts, so that it is conveniently readable and searchable online. A farreaching account of the significance of menopause in human evolution. Pdf this article suggests that shell shock was a discourse both medical and metaphorical. The unattractive body in early modern culture on jstor. Through this openness, the church is drawn into a network of churches, which.
Culture and collective violence 7 holodomor, russias systematic starvation of seven million ukrainians in 19321933, extensive, longlasting, diffuse, and mostly bloodless. Ugly as sin, the ugly ducklingor maybe you fell out of the ugly tree. All european societies are preoccupied with this specter. The book analyzes and explains the basic prehistory of the universe and how it came into being, the basic dynamics which created life, the basic. Hall examines the interchange between popular and learned cultures and the practices of reading and.
Plain ugly examines depictions of physically repellent characters in a striking range of early modern literary and visual texts, offering fascinating insights i. Viennese art, ugliness, and the vienna school of art history. Henderson packs an abundance of fascinating case studies and thoughtprovoking insights into a stimulating conceptual framework, all in the service of her argument about past and. In her wideranging and frequently illuminating study, ugliness. On ugliness is a study of the concept of ugliness through time, an analysis of an idea through its manifestation in visual art, literature, and to a lesser extent in architecture and photography. The path of splitness is a major nonfiction work that will rock the scientific world it is 2,766 pages. Henderson ventures on a critical journey through the history of ugliness, viewing the concept through the lens of culture and corporeality. Szalay this bold and ingenious book gives us the hipsters racial background, but also a crucial glimpse into how cultural politics matter to politics in the weightiest and most straightforward sense. A history of an identity, an identity of a history. The ideas presented here have developed out of a kind of dia.
Cult of ugliness the art and popular culture encyclopedia. From the frequent invocation of the colonial stereotype of the licentious and sexually deviant indian squaw to the fetishization of the violence committed against these women, ugliness shapes all aspects of the mediation of indigenous womens. The history of physics and its relevance to our lives today 0. How did people in early america understand the authority of print and how was this authority sustained and contested. Cult of ugliness refers to a relatively new phenomenon largely coinciding with the arrival of modern art in the history of art and aesthetics.
When the church describes itself in terms of koinonia. The making of a society is the finding of common meanings and directions, and its. Cultural documents encourages and practices diversity and equality towithbetween all irrespective of gender, race, ethnic origin, abilitydisability, age, nationality, national origin, sexuality, more. Nov 15, 2015 a look at the way ugliness has been defined by various cultures and in different periods of history, this is an interesting read. Gretchen hendersons cultural history of ugliness skates, at an. Henderson explores the ways we have perceived ugliness throughout history, from ancient roman feasts to medieval. An outsiders observations from the moments before chinas cultural revolution. Address cultural documents, eadie house, 74 kirkintilloch road, bishopbriggs, glasgow g64 2ah. Henderson traces how ugliness moves beyond ugly anomalous individuals and resistant. Each piece has been selected and annotated by scholars in the field, with the aim of helping university level instructors and students incorporate a disability studies. Every human society expresses these, in institutions, and in arts and learning. A most significant aspect is local cultural history which considers the way of life of people of earlier times and hence is concerned \vith their folklore. This article is a critique of ethnicity theories based on essentialism the idea that ethnic traits are innate essences both in the individual and the ethnie as a social group which have been adopted.
A cultural history makes a valuable contribution to the contemporary study of ugliness and its myriad functions in western culture. Henderson ugly as sin, ugly duckling, rear its ugly head. Applied, fine art, graphic communication and photography. A cultural history, henderson university of chicago press. A literary history of the democratic party michael f. Now fully updated in its second edition, leading historian peter burke offers afresh his accessible guide to the past, present and future of cultural history, as it has been practised not only in the englishspeaking world. Also, there was the natural and humanmade disaster of katrina, aggravated by criminal governmental neglect, the fatallyslow response, the unsupported right to return, the farmedout reconstruction, and the planned racial transformation of new orleans into a white highend. There is not one kenya, but many kenyas, and while this is a challenge to any writer, the much greater challenges are those faced by not just the kenyan government but governments everywhere in africa. Henderson traces how ugliness moves beyond ugly anomalous individuals and resistant ugly groups to break down borders through ugly senses that place all human beings into an equal camp. The subject has been covered before on works on the grotesque by such authors as. Henderson explores the ways we have perceived ugliness throughout history, from ancient roman feasts to medieval grotesque gargoyles, from mary shelleys frankenstein to the nazi exhibition of degenerate art.
Heroes are the real or imaginary people who serve as behavior models within a culture. European settlements for military reasons and for resource extraction. Engaging ugliness beyond the realm of art and aesthetics and into the realm of sound, sight, and embodiment, ugliness. Pdf shellshock and the cultural history of the great war. Instead, henderson creates a capacious definition of ugliness, demonstrating how the term is constantly under revision as cultural fears and norms shift. A cultural history is a highly readable, erudite, and compelling account that opens up many avenues for further consideration of its topic. As a result it is a land rich in cultural and ethnic diversity, with unique and dynamic cultural traditions. Indeed, multiculturalism is a specter not only to europe, but also to the entire earth. Storia della bruttezza by umberto eco is an cultural history book first published in october 2007. History of sexuality vol1, foucault 1978 since the 17th c. Lovingly illustrated with the foulest images from art, history, and culture, ugliness offers an oddly refreshing perspective, going past the surface to ask what ugly truly is, even as its meaning continues to shift. Especially in the opening phase of the council, the disputes between curial officials. Multiculturalism and its challenge xunwu chen a specter is haunting europe, to borrow a line from karl marxthe specter of multiculturalism.