…can be contrasted; but if beautiful is used as synonymous with æsthetically satisfying, then its contradictory is not ‘ugly’, but unæsthetic, or indifferent…
…art together with some examples of primitive art are considered by the author to provide the most direct evidence for the irrational and unæsthetic modes in…
The first chapter, entitled Anæsthetic Criticism, is masterful and comparable to Crews’s previous endeavors in the field. Unhappily, much literary criticism, especially psychoanalytic literary criticism, is not only unæsthetic and inelegant, but often anæsthetizes the reader. If art does not speak directly to our soul (an approximate concept of the unconscious before Freud), if it does not mobilize our own affects, it is not æsthetic. The pointed ambiguity of the word ‘anæsthetic’ illustrates Crews’s manners and method.
Lawrence says that Cooper presents Natty as an “unæsthetic figure, especially as we see him first, when he is an old man, uncouth,…
2004: Amit Kama, Supercrips versus the pitiful handicapped: Reception of disabling images by disabled audience members, PAGE UNKNOWN (LINKS: [1], [2], [3])
On the one hand, there is a tradition in modern societies to hide ‘unæsthetic’ people away from public view (Wolfson and Norden, 2000).
…is a definite proof that the maximum permissible exposure would be exceeded, or when the proposed location is otherwise unsuitable (unæsthetic, on historical…
