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Suffering, Art, and Aesthetics / edited by R. Hadj-Moussa, M. Nijhawan.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- 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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