Suffering, Art, and Aesthetics - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1137426071 ISBN 13: 9781137426079

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

Synopsis

How do we conceptualize the relationship between suffering, art, and aesthetics from within the broader framework of social, cultural, and political thought today? How do we test the limits of such frameworks of thinking and speaking when reflecting on art

About this title

Review:

"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

About the Author:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1137426071
• ISBN 13: 9781137426079
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 243
• Editor: Hadj-Moussa R., Nijhawan M.