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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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"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
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Book Title: Suffering, Art, and Aesthetics
Editors: Ratiba Hadj-Moussa, Michael Nijhawan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137426086
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Ratiba Hadj-Moussa and Michael Nijhawan 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-42607-9Published: 15 July 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-49069-1Published: 18 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-42608-6Published: 09 July 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 233
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Culture, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Arts, Cultural Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Regional and Cultural Studies