The aesthetics of uncertainty /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2008]
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| Series: | Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The desire for certainty--and the timeliness of doubt
- Groundless beauty : feminism and the aesthetics of uncertainty
- English art and principled aesthetics
- The iconic and the allusive : the case for beauty in post-Holocaust art
- The impolite boarder : Kitaj's "diasporist" art and its critical response
- "Degenerate art" in Britain : refugees, internees, and visual culture
- The sociological image
- Afterword: Aesthetics and ethics in the twenty-first century.