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Author	Kelleher, Katy.
Title	The ugly history of beautiful things : essays on desire and consumption / Katy Kelleher.
Publication Info.	New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023.
	©2023

Location	Call No.	Status
Lobby Non-Fiction		IN LIBRARY

Edition	First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description	x, 262 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-247) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- 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 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 -- Conclusion.
Subject	Aesthetics -- Social aspects.
	Consumer goods -- Psychological aspects.
	Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects.
Genre or Form	Essays.
Added Title	Essays. Selections
	Essays on desire and consumption
ISBN	9781982179359 hc.
	198217935X hc.

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