The aesthetics of uncertainty
By: Janet Wolff.
Series: Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780231140966
Subjects: Aesthetics; Art -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The desire for certainty and the timeliness of doubt; title: Groundless beauty : feminism and the aesthetics of uncertainty; title: English art and principled aesthetics; title: The iconic and the allusive : the case for beauty in post-Holocaust art; title: The impolite boarder : Kitaj's "diasporist" art and its critical response; title: "Degenerate art" in Britain : refugees, internees, and visual culture; title: The sociological image; title: Afterword: Aesthetics and ethics in the twenty-first century.