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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Janet WolffPublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.411kg ISBN: 9780231140966ISBN 10: 0231140967 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 25 September 2008 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Language: English Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Desire for Certainty-and the Timeliness of Doubt 1. Groundless Beauty: Feminism and the Aesthetics of Uncertainty 2. English Art and Principled Aesthetics 3. The Iconic and the Allusive: The Case for Beauty in Post-Holocaust Art 4. The Impolite Boarder: Kitaj's Diasporist Art and Its Critical Response 5. Degenerate Art in Britain: Refugees, Internees and Visual Culture 6. The Sociological Image Afterword: Aesthetics and Ethics in the Twenty-first Century Notes IndexReviewsA salutary reminder of a fact often sensed but rarely articulated: the uncertain, the indirect, and the oblique are especially at home in our contemporary context of artistic creation and interpretation, and we would do well to investigate them for what they are in and of themselves, rather than seeing them merely as obstacles to be gotten beyond in pursuit of something more perceptually stable and, we too easily think, epistemologically worthy. -- Garry L. Hagberg CAA Reviews ...delivers a salutary reminder of a fact often sensed but rarely articulated: the uncertain, the indirect, and the oblique are especially at home in our contemporary context of artistic creation and interpretation, and we would do well to investigate them for what they are in and of themselves, rather than seeing them merely as obstacles to be gotten beyond in pursuit of something more perceptually stable and, we too easily think, epistemologically worthy. -- Garry L. Hagberg CAA Reviews 9/29/2010 Author InformationJanet Wolff is professor of cultural sociology and director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts at the University of Manchester. She is the author of The Social Production of Art, Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art, Feminine Sentences: Essays on Women and Culture, Resident Alien: Feminist Cultural Criticism, and AngloModern: Painting and Modernity in Britain and the United States. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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