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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Kelleher, Katy, author.     Subjects     Aesthetics -- Social aspects.     Consumption (Economics) -- Psychological aspects.     Consumer goods -- Psychological aspects.     Material culture -- Psychological aspects.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kelleher, Katy, author.       by title:      The ugly history of ...         MARC Display

The ugly history of beautiful things : essays on desire and consumption / Katy Kelleher. by Kelleher, Katy, author. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023. Subjects Aesthetics -- Social aspects.   Consumption (Economics) -- Psychological aspects.   Consumer goods -- Psychological aspects.   Material culture -- Psychological aspects. ISBN:  9781982179359 (hardcover) : 198217935X (hardcover) : Description:  x, 262 pages ; 24 cm Edition:  First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Contents:  The mercurial charms of the mirror: on seeing and being seen -- Mouth full of petals, veins full of wax: on stealing, eating, praying, and playing with flowers -- Bright blue, cursed cuts: on gemstones, worry stones, and her majesty the diamond -- Spiraling: on the ancient appeal of shells, pearls, and mollusk-made wonders -- Live fast, die pretty: on wearing war paint, faces full of lead, and the makeup of makeup -- Dirty, sweet, floral, foul: the rank of backstory of perfumery -- Women and worms: The prismatic sheen of silk and its fairy-tale logic -- Deceptions and damnation: the molten glow of screens, the beauty of stained glass, and the treachery of spectacles -- Bone white, paper thin: on porcelain dishes, pale faces, and the complicated act of setting a table -- The exhalations of the earth: on marble statues, engineered stones, white lungs, and small lambs. Requests:  1 Summary:  "Katy Kelleher has spent much of her life chasing beauty...This obsession with beauty led her to become a home, garden, and design writer, where she studied how beautiful things are mined, grown, made, and enhanced. In researching these objects, Kelleher concluded that most of us are blind to the true cost of our desires. Because whenever you find something unbearably beautiful, look closer, and you'll inevitably find a shadow of decay lurking underneath. In these dazzling and deeply researched essays, Katy Kelleher blends science, history, and memoir to uncover the dark underbellies of our favorite goods...With prose as stunning as the objects she describes, Kelleher invites readers to examine their own relationships with the beautiful objects that adorn their body and grace their homes. And yet, Kelleher argues that while we have a moral imperative to understand our relationship to desire, we are not evil or weak for desiring beauty. The Ugly History of Beautiful Things opens our eyes to beauty that surrounds us, helps us understand how that beauty came to be, what price was paid and by whom, and how we can most ethically partake in the beauty of the world."-- Publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hanapepe Public Library Adult Nonfiction 111.85 Ke Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 111.85 Ke Checked out 06/30/2024 Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 111.85 Kelleher Item being held   Add Copy to MyList

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