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Loading... Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic: The Aesthetics of Consumerism (edition 2001)by Daniel Harris
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A fun, easy-to-read piece of pop sociology. Harris breaks down the title concepts and shows how they are socially constructed. For instance, what is considered romantic and why. How much do diamond merchants and florists have to do with our conception of "romantic"? The section about CUTE will make you look at stuffed animals in a whole new way. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Why has the ring of the telephone become a beep? What ever happened to the bumpers and fenders of cars? Why do food commercials never mention hunger?In this encyclopedia of low-brow aesthetics, Daniel Harris concentrates on the nuances of non-art, the uses of the useless, the politics of product design and advertising. We learn how advertisers exaggerate our sensual responses to eating, how close-up nature photography exaggerates the accessibility of the natural world, and how the mutated physiology of dolls invites our pity and affection.In studying its aesthetics, we find consumerism instills disappointment rather than gratification, convincing us that our lives are deficient and wanting. If we are what we buy, then we must buy in order to be. No library descriptions found. |
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