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The Art of Cruelty
Maggie Nelson
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Description for The Art of Cruelty
Hardcover. A fresh new voice in art and cultural criticism takes on the day's most pressing questions about representations of violence in art. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 182 x 26. Weight in Grams: 390.
Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiveness of images of torture, horror, and war has all but demolished the twentieth-century hope that such imagery might shock us into a less alienated state, or aid in the creation of a just social order. What to do now? When to look, when to turn away?
Genre-busting author Maggie Nelson brilliantly navigates this contemporary predicament, with an eye to the question of whether or not focusing on representations of cruelty makes us cruel. In a journey through high and low culture (Kafka ... Read more
Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiveness of images of torture, horror, and war has all but demolished the twentieth-century hope that such imagery might shock us into a less alienated state, or aid in the creation of a just social order. What to do now? When to look, when to turn away?
Genre-busting author Maggie Nelson brilliantly navigates this contemporary predicament, with an eye to the question of whether or not focusing on representations of cruelty makes us cruel. In a journey through high and low culture (Kafka ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393072150
SKU
V9780393072150
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99-15
About Maggie Nelson
Maggie Nelson is the author of many acclaimed books of poetry and prose, including Like Love, The Argonauts, and Bluets. She currently teaches at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
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