Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues
“Circle World” by Cyriak
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 20, 2020 -
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Category: Aliens, Animals, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Body Modifications, Surrealism, Cartoons, Special Effects
A Scrap-Book for Homely Women Only
Harper's Weekly - Mar 22, 1884
Posted By: Alex - Tue May 26, 2020 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Advertising, Nineteenth Century
Miss Sputnik
Posted By: Paul - Sat May 02, 2020 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, 1950s
The Girl on the Magazine Cover
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 29, 2020 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Business, Advertising, Magazines, 1940s
National Doughnut Queen 1952
Source.
Diane Scholen, left, and Pat Kizeminski, right (runners-up) place doughnut crown on Nancy Templeton, National Doughnut Queen
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 22, 2020 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Food, 1950s
Johanna Went
Let us know when you bail.
Halfway through 1984’s Knife Boxing, Johanna Went interrupts her incessant frenzied bopping to thrust her hands into a crudely made body part—half-buttocks, half-vagina—suspended from the roof of Club Lingerie.1 A vicious viscous excremental substance seeps down her arm. She brings her face close and sucks the stuff into her mouth before hauling out a giant goo-covered tampon that she aggressively flings at the audience. Some cringe, others laugh. Quickly she pulls on a costume, a huge mask-headed apron covered in sex doll heads, all the while screaming her unique tongue, a babble from Hell channeled through Lolita-cum-Medea. Screeching tape loops accompany her, along with a blaring saxophone and a loud percussive racket emanating from a woman drumming on found objects.2 A monstrous vagina appears stage right. Went extracts more tampons, heaving each into the mesmerized mosh pit. Completely at one with her, the audience starts hurling these back in a game of volleyball gone mad. After all, this show was held to coincide with the Los Angeles Olympics. Much art programming accompanied that event, but Went was not part of the roster. Instead, she held her own celebration of sports, on the stage of a punk club, flanked by headless stockinette figures replete with genitalia parodying the elegant cast metal kouroi made by Robert Graham to decorate the official Olympic stadiums.
Source of quote, long essay.
Another essay on the creator, here.
Her Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 13, 2020 -
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Category: Ambiguity, Uncertainty and Deliberate Obscurity, Antisocial Activities, Armageddon and Apocalypses, Bad Habits, Neuroses and Psychoses, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Music, Avant Garde, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Twentieth Century
Ulay & Abramovic
Alas, Ulay is no more.Marina is still with us.
Enjoy 2.5 hours of their art.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 05, 2020 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Body, Entertainment, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers
Hamlet, the Rock Musical
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 03, 2020 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Costumes and Masks, Death, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Pranks and Revenge, Theater and Stage, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, Pop Art, Foreign Customs, Seventeenth Century, Sixteenth Century, Brain Damage, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
“Miss Wisconsin” Arrives for National October Cheese Week Festival, 1951
She's the one on your left.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 01, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Food, 1950s
Boycycle
Salvatore Ganacci - Boycycle from BUSINESS CLUB ROYALE on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 22, 2020 -
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Category: Aliens, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Bicycles and Other Human-powered Vehicles, Body, Differently Abled, Handicapped, Challenged, and Otherwise Atypical, Cryptozoology, Family, Surrealism
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