The retro-futurism of cuteness / edited by Jen Boyle and Wan-Chuan Kao.
Is it possible to conceive of a Hello Kitty Middle Ages or a Tickle Me Elmo Renaissance? The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first reference to "cute" in the sense of "attractive, pretty, charming" to 1834. More recently, Sianne Ngai has offered a critical overview of the cut...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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[United States], Earth, Milky Way :
Punctum Books,
2017.
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| Summary: | Is it possible to conceive of a Hello Kitty Middle Ages or a Tickle Me Elmo Renaissance? The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first reference to "cute" in the sense of "attractive, pretty, charming" to 1834. More recently, Sianne Ngai has offered a critical overview of the cuteness of the twentieth-century avant-garde within the context of consumer culture. But if cuteness can get under the skin, what kinds of surfaces does it best infiltrate, particularly in the framework of historical forms, events, and objects that traditionally have been read as emergences around "big" aesthetics of formal symmetries, high affects, and resemblances? |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1947447289 9781947447288 1947447297 9781947447295 |