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Outrage: Art, Controversy, and Society

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  1. Richard Howells

    1. King’s College London, UK

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  2. Andreea Deciu Ritivoi

    1. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

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  3. Judith Schachter

    1. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Richard Howells, Andreea Deciu Ritivoi, Judith Schachter
      Pages 1-16

  5. Censoring and Subverting: The Arts and Politics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
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    2. Underexposed: The Controversial Censorship of Photographs of US War Dead

      • Jasmine Alinder
      Pages 175-206

    3. Testimony and Theater: The Controversy of Truth-Telling in Post-Apartheid South Africa and Post-Conflict Northern Ireland

      • Jennifer Keating-Miller
      Pages 207-222

    4. Tracing Controversy in East German Film

      • Stephen Brockmann
      Pages 223-235

  6. The Past and the Future of Arts Controversies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237
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    2. Remediating Arts Controversy in the Nineteenth Century

      • Jon Klancher
      Pages 239-261

    3. “Giacinto Scelsi c’est moi!”

      • Franco Sciannameo
      Pages 262-277

    4. Beauty and Danger: The Aestheticization of Information in Contemporary Art

      • Melissa Ragona
      Pages 278-290

  7. The Future of Controversies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 291-291
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    2. Art Fights: The Persistence of Controversy in Modern Aesthetics

      • Manu Samriti Chander
      Pages 293-302
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A study of controversy in the arts, and the extent to which such controversies are socially rather than just aesthetically conditioned. The collection pays special attention to the vested interests and the social dynamics involved, including class, religion, culture, and - above all - power.

Editors and Affiliations

  • King’s College London, UK

    Richard Howells

  • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

    Andreea Deciu Ritivoi, Judith Schachter

About the editors

RICHARD HOWELLS is Reader in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College, London, UK, where he specialises in visual and popular culture. In 2004 he was Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Center for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University. His books include The Myth of the Titanic (1999 and 2012) and Visual Culture (2003 and 2012, also published in Chinese and Korean). He has published widely in journals in including Screen, Celebrity Studies, Word & Image, the European Review, and the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.
ANDREEA DECIU RITIVOI is Associate Professor of English and Rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Between 2008–2011 she was co-director (with Judith Schachter) of the Controversy and Public Art project with the Center for Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University. Her publications include Yesterday's Self: Nostalgia and the Immigrant Identity (2002), Interpretation and Its Objects: Studies in the Philosophy of Michael Krausz (2003), Paul Ricoeur: Tradition and Innovation in Rhetorical Theory (2006), and many articles on narrative and identity, hermeneutics, and argumentation.
JUDITH SCHACHTER is Professor of Anthropology and History at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Former Director of the Center for the Arts in Society, she conducted the 'Controversy Initiative' with Professor Andreea Ritivoi. Schachter's publications include: Ruth Benedict: Patterns of a Life, Kinship with Strangers: Adoption and Interpretations of Kinship, and Envisioning Homestead, with Charlee Brodsky. She was co-editor of Cultures In/Out of Time, a collection of essays on arts in society. In addition, she has published articles from her recent work on American imperialism in Hawaii.

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