Reparative aesthetics : witnessing in contemporary art photography /: witnessing in contemporary art photography. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Susan Best.
• Authors: Best, Susan
• Contents: Cover page; Halftitle page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Guilt and Shame Current Debates in Affect Studies; The current debate: shame and anti-intentionalism; Leys and Sedgwick: points of convergence, psychoanalysis and affect theory; Guilt and shame about the past; 2 Witnessing Fever; Witnessing: from oral testimony to watching the news; Identification and non-identification; 3 Shame and the Convict Stain Anne Ferran's Lost to Worlds; What remains: the heritage of convict women Lost to Worlds : shame, guilt and reparationAftermath images and witnessing; 4 Fiona Pardington Colonialism and Repair in the Southern Seas; Colonialism, postcolonialism and voyages to the Southern Seas; Presence, occluded vision and witnessing; Life aesthetics, mortuary aesthetics: reparation and the redemption of damaged life; 5 Rosângela Rennó' Little Stories of the Downtrodden and the Vanquished'; Immemorial : Brasília, capital of hope, cruel utopia; Corpo da Alma: pictures of people holding pictures; 6 Our Dark Side Milagros de la Torre's The Lost Steps The testimony of objects: war and crime in a time of fearDark enlightenment: perversion, shame, shock; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 779.092; Theory of art; Photography, Artistic; PHOTOGRAPHY / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General; PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / Artists' Books; PHOTOGRAPHY / Photoessays & Documentaries; PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / General; Photography, Artistic; Philosophy; Philosophy -- Aesthetics; Art -- Criticism & Theory; Philosophy -- Criticism; Philosophy: aesthetics; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781472525758; 1472525752; 9781472534583; 1472534581
• Related ISBNs: 9781472529787
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 21, 2016)
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