Suffering, art, and aesthetics
By: edited by Ratiba Hadj-Moussa & Michael Nijhawan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781137426079
Subjects: Suffering in art; Arts and society; Modern Aesthetics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Suffering in Art: Redrawing the Boundaries / Ratiba Hadj-Moussa & Michael Nijhawan; title: In Praise of Ambiguity: On the Visual Economy of Distant Suffering / Fuyuki Kurasawa; title: Denial and Challenges of Modernity: Suffering, Recognition and Dignity in Sammy Baloji's Photography / Bogumil Jewsiewicki; title: Events, Images and Affect: The Tsunami in the Folk Art of Bengal / Roma Chatterji; title: Vocalizations of Suffering / Caterina Pasqualino; title: The Art of Suffering: Postcolonial (Mis)Apprehensions of Nigerian Art / Conerly Casey; title: The Past's Suffering and the Body's Suffering: Algerian Cinema and the Challenge of Experience / Ratiba Hadj-Moussa; title: The Diasporic Rasa of Suffering: Notes on the Aesthetics of Image and Sound in Indo-Caribbean and Sikh Art / Michael Nijhawan & Anna C. Schultz; title: Suffering, Animals, Spectators, and the Challenge of Contemporary Art / Nathalie Heinich.