Download or read book The Aesthetics of Strangeness written by W. Puck Brecher and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a corrective to existing scholarship on eccentric artists by reconsidering the sudden and dramatic emergence of aesthetic strangeness during the mid Edo period. It explains how through the period, eccentricity and madness developed and