Gebundenes Buch

Suffering, Art, and Aesthetics

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Conerly Casey, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Roma Chatterji, Delhi University, India Nathalie Heinich, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France Bogumil Jewsiewicki, Université Laval, Canada Fuyuki Kurasawa, York University, Canada Caterina Pasquilino, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France Anna Schultz, Stanford University, USA

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-42607-9
• 2014
• Seitenzahl: 233
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781137426079
• ISBN-10: 1137426071
• Artikelnr.: 40580014

Rezensionen

"It is the great merit of this collective volume to bring together recent theoretical advances in the anthropology of art and original empirical cases from various parts of the world, so as to link in novel manner aesthetics, politics, and subjectivities." - Didier Fassin, co-author (with Richard Retchman) of The Empire of Trauma and author of Humanitarian Reason

"It's commonplace to criticize depictions of suffering as numbing spectacle. Suffering, Art, and Aesthetics offers powerful cases of artworks in many media that capture and express the suffering of others, whether between generations or across cultures, with thoughtful care. By strategies such as privileging the ordinary, giving precedence to non-visual sensory experience, and addressing local audiences first, artworks can decelerate the transition from sensation to meaning, giving recipients time and space to feel, gradually decipher, and collectively learn from experiences of suffering." - Laura U. Marks, Simon Fraser University, Canada