The Cute tracks the astonishing impact of a single aesthetic category on post-war and
contemporary art and on the vast range of cultural practices and discourses on which artists
draw. From robots and cat videos to ice cream socials The Cute explores the ramifications of
an aesthetic 'of' or 'about' minorness - or what is perceived to be diminutive subordinate
and above all unthreatening - on the shifting forms and contents of art today. This anthology
is the first of its kind to show how contemporary artists have worked on and transformed the
cute and in ways that not only complexify its meaning but reshape their own artistic
practices. Artists surveyed include Peggy Ahwesh Cosima Von Bonin Nayland Blake Paul Chan
Henry Darger Adrian Howells Juliana Huxtable Larry Johnson Mike Kelley Dean Kenning
Wyndham Lewis Jeff Koons Sean-Kierre Lyons Mammalian Diving Reflex Tala Madani Annette
Messager Mariko Mori Charlemagne Palestine Mika Rottenberg Allen Ruppersberg Jack Smith
Carolee Schneeman Kara Walker Andy Warhol Yoshitomo Nara Writers include Sasha Archibald
Roland Barthes Leigh Claire La Berge Ian Bogost Lauren Berlant Jennifer Doyle Lee Edelman
Stephen Jay Gould Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy Bridget Minamore Juliane Rebentisch Frances
Richard John Roberts Friedrich Schiller Peter Schjeldahl Kanako Shiokawa
