How Long to Read Aesthetics of Discomfort

How Long Does it Take to Read Aesthetics of Discomfort?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 41 minutes to read Aesthetics of Discomfort by Frederick Luis Aldama

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Through a series of provocative conversations, Frederick Luis Aldama and Herbert Lindenberger, who have written widely on literature, film, music, and art, locate a place for the discomforting and the often painfully unpleasant within aesthetics. The conversational format allows them to travel informally across many centuries and many art forms. They have much to tell one another about the arts since the advent of modernism soon after 1900—the nontonal music, for example, of the Second Vienna School, the chance-directed music and dance of John Cage and Merce Cunningham, the in-your-faceness of such diverse visual artists as Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning, Egon Schiele, Otto Dix, and Damien Hirst. They demonstrate as well a long tradition of discomforting art stretching back many centuries, for example, in the Last Judgments of innumerable Renaissance painters, in Goya’s so-called “black” paintings, in Wagner’s Tristan chord, and in the subtexts of Shakespearean works such as King Lear and Othello. This book is addressed at once to scholars of literature, art history, musicology, and cinema. Although its conversational format eschews the standard conventions of scholarly argument, it provides original insights both into particular art forms and into individual works within these forms. Among other matters, it demonstrates how recent work in neuroscience may provide insights in the ways that consumers process difficult and discomforting works of art. The book also contributes to current aesthetic theory by charting the dialogue that goes on—especially in aesthetically challenging works—between creator, artifact, and consumer.

How long is Aesthetics of Discomfort?

Aesthetics of Discomfort by Frederick Luis Aldama is 221 pages long, and a total of 55,471 words.

This makes it 75% the length of the average book. It also has 68% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Aesthetics of Discomfort Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 3 minutes to read Aesthetics of Discomfort aloud.

What Reading Level is Aesthetics of Discomfort?

Aesthetics of Discomfort is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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