The aesthetics of uncertainty /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wolff, Janet
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2008]
Series:Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.
Subjects:
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.