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Suffering, Art, and Aesthetics / edited by R. Hadj-Moussa, M. Nijhawan.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Hadj-Moussa, Ratiba, 1956- Editor.
Nijhawan, Michael, Editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Culture.
Communication.
Culture--Study and teaching.
Arts.
Ethnology.
Sociology of Culture.
Media and Communication.
Cultural Studies.
Sociocultural Anthropology.
Regional Cultural Studies.
Local Subjects:
Sociology of Culture.
Media and Communication.
Cultural Studies.
Arts.
Sociocultural Anthropology.
Regional Cultural Studies.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (233 pages)
Edition:
1st ed. 2014.
Place of Publication:
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
How do we conceptualize the relationship between suffering, art, and aesthetics from within the broader framework of social, cultural, and political thought today? This book brings together a range of intellectuals from the social sciences and humanities to speak to theoretical debates around the questions of suffering in art and suffering and art.
Contents:
Introduction: Suffering in Art: Redrawing the Boundaries / Ratiba Hadj-Moussa & Michael Nijhawan
In Praise of Ambiguity: On the Visual Economy of Distant Suffering / Fuyuki Kurasawa
Denial and Challenges of Modernity: Suffering, Recognition and Dignity in Sammy Baloji's Photography / Bogumil Jewsiewicki
Events, Images and Affect: The Tsunami in the Folk Art of Bengal / Roma Chatterji
Vocalizations of Suffering / Caterina Pasqualino
The Art of Suffering: Postcolonial (Mis)Apprehensions of Nigerian Art / Conerly Casey
The Past's Suffering and the Body's Suffering: Algerian Cinema and the Challenge of Experience / Ratiba Hadj-Moussa
The Diasporic Rasa of Suffering: Notes on the Aesthetics of Image and Sound in Indo-Caribbean and Sikh Art / Michael Nijhawan & Anna C. Schultz
Suffering, Animals, Spectators, and the Challenge of Contemporary Art / Nathalie Heinich.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
9781137426086
113742608X
OCLC:
890601770

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