The art of cruelty : a reckoning / Maggie Nelson
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TextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Co. , c2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 288 p. ; 22 cmISBN: - 9780393072150
- Reckoning
- 701 NEL
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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| Libro - Monografía | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles | 701 NEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Non fiction | 063319 |
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| 700.9747 CIT City of ambition : artists & New York, 1900-1960 / | 700.9747 PER New art city | 700.9747 SCH The loft generation : from the de Koonings to Twombly : portraits and sketches, 1942-2011 / | 701 NEL The art of cruelty : a reckoning | 701 YEN How to look at modern art | 701.03 LAI Funny weather : art in an emergency | 701.15 FRE Creative time and space : making room for making art |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Styles of imprisonment -- Theaters of cruelty -- Great to watch -- Catharsis, captivity -- Everything is nice -- They're only dolls -- The golden rule -- Nobody said no -- The brutality of fact -- Who we are -- A situation of meat -- Precariousness -- Inflicted -- Face -- Rings of action -- Rarer and better things.
Discusses whether the brutal imagery present in reality and entertainment will shock society into a less alienated state and help create a just social order or whether focusing on representations of cruelty makes society more cruel.
English
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