Terror and the sublime in art and critical theory : from Auschwitz to Hiroshima to September 11 /

The eleven interconnected essays of this book penetrate the dense historical knots binding terror, power, and the aesthetic sublime and bring the results to bear on the trauma of September 11 and the subsequent "war on terror." Through rigorous critical studies of major works of post- 1945...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ray, Gene, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Colección:Studies in European culture and history.
Temas:
1900-1999
Sublime, The, in art.
Horror in art.
Psychic trauma.
Arts, European > 20th century.
Aesthetics, Modern > 20th century.
Aesthetics, Modern.
Sublime dans l'art.
Horreur dans l'art.
Traumatisme psychique.
Arts européens > 20e siècle.
Esthétique > 20e siècle.
ART > Reference.
ART > Performance.
Aesthetics, Modern
Arts, European
Horror in art
Psychic trauma
Sublime, The, in art
Het sublieme.
Trauma's (psychologie)
Terrorisme.
Beeldende kunsten.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the hit
  • Ch. 1. Reading the Lisbon earthquake : Adorno, Lyotard, and the contemporary sublime
  • Ch. 2. Joseph Beuys and the "after-Auschwitz" sublime
  • Ch. 3. Ground Zero : Hiroshima haunts "9/11"
  • Ch. 4. Mirroring evil : Auschwitz, art and the "war on terror"
  • Ch. 5. Little glass house of horrors : taking Damien Hirst seriously
  • Ch. 6. Blasted moments : remarking a Hiroshima image
  • Ch. 7. Installing a "new cosmopolitics" : Derrida and the writers
  • Ch. 8. Working out and playing through : Boaz Arad's Hitler videos
  • Ch. 9. Listening with the third ear : echoes from Ground Zero
  • Ch. 10. Conditioning Adorno : "after Auschwitz" now.

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