Outrage : art, controversy, and society / edited by Richard Howells, Andreea Deciu Ritivoi and Judith Schachter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Howells, Richard, 1956-

Ritivoi, Andreea Deciu, 1970-

Schachter, Judith, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts and society.

Physical Description:

xvi, 331 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

Outrage: Art, Controversy, and Society explores controversy in the arts, and especially the extent to which such controversies are socially rather than just aesthetically conditioned. It pays special attention to the way these controversies move beyond the world of art and into the public sphere-and often return to reshape the art world itself. It investigates how and why this happens, with particular emphasis on the social dynamics involved, including class, religion, culture, and-above all-power. It argues that only through a deeper understanding of the interaction between these forces and art can we be in a better position to evaluate the controversies that rage around the place of artworks in a public setting. The book's case studies ultimately combine to provide much-needed insight into the range of vested interests that are manifest in "the arts in society". Book jacket.

Contents:

Controversy, art, and power / Richard Howells

A primal controversy : on the destruction and protection of art in western culture / Lowry Burgess

Recruiting and nominating participants for the Brooklyn Museum controversy : the contributions of New York City print journalists / Peter A. Cramer

Pieces from the past : contestation around Francoist monuments in modern-day Spain / Carrie L. Ruiz

The nation's cathedral : public art and competing memories in post-communist Romania / Andreea Deciu Ritivoi

Citizenship and public art : Chicago's Millennium Park / Fred Evans

Underexposed : the controversial censorship of photographs of US war dead / Jasmine Alinder

Testimony and theater : the controversy of truth-telling in post-apartheid South Africa and post-conflict Northern Ireland / Jennifer Keating-Miller

Tracing controversy in East German film / Stephen Brockmann

Remediating arts controversy in the nineteenth century / Jon Klancher

"Giancinto scelsi c'est moi!" / Franco Sciannameo

Beauty and danger : the aestheticization of information in contemporary art / Melissa Ragona

Art fights : the persistence of controversy in modern aesthetics / Manu Samriti Chander

The end of the modern art controversy and the many controversies over art / Albrecht Funk.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230353978

0230353975

OCLC:

800030530