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9780393072150

The Art of Cruelty A Reckoning

by Nelson, Maggie
  • ISBN13:

    9780393072150

  • ISBN10:

    0393072150

  • eBook ISBN(s):

    9780393082234

  • Edition: 00
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-07-11
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Summary

Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiveness of images of torture, horror, and war has all but demolished the twentieth-century hope that such imagery might shock us into a less alienated state, or aid in the creation of a just social order. What to do now? When to look, when to turn away? Genre-busting author Maggie Nelson brilliantly navigates this contemporary predicament, with an eye to the question of whether or not focusing on representations of cruelty makes us cruel. In a journey through high and low culture (Kafka to reality TV), the visual to the verbal (Paul McCarthy to Brian Evenson), and the apolitical to the political (Francis Bacon to Kara Walker), Nelson offers a model of how one might balance strong ethical convictions with an equally strong appreciation for work that tests the limits of taste, taboo, and permissibility.

Table of Contents

Styles of Imprisonmentp. 3
Theaters of Crueltyp. 15
Great to Watchp. 31
Captivity, Catharsisp. 53
Everything Is Nicep. 66
They're Only Dollsp. 91
The Golden Rulep. 105
Nobody Said Nop. 119
The Brutality of Factp. 131
Who We Arep. 162
A Situation of Meatp. 175
Precariousnessp. 191
Inflictedp. 205
Facep. 227
Rings of Actionp. 239
Rarer And Better Thingsp. 262
Acknowledgmentsp. 271
Bibliographyp. 273
Indexp. 279
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