Suffering, Art, and Aesthetics [electronic resource] /
Hadj-Moussa, R.editor.
Nijhawan, M.editor.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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.
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.
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