Reparative Aesthetics Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography

by Best, Susan

• ISBN13: 9781472529862
• ISBN10: 1472529863
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-10-20
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

By offering a new way of thinking about the role of politically engaged art, Susan Best opens up a new aesthetic field: reparative aesthetics. The book identifies an innovative aesthetic on the part of women photographers from the southern hemisphere, who against the dominant modes of criticality in political art, look at how cultural production can be reparative.

Reparative Aesthetics contributes an entirely new theory to the interdisciplinary fields of aesthetics, affect studies, feminist theory, politics and photography. Conceptually innovative and fiercely original this book will move us beyond old political and cultural stalemates and into new terrain for analysis and reflection.

Author Biography

Susan Best teaches art history and theory at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Recent publications include Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde (2011) which won the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand best book award in 2012.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1. Guilt and shame about the past: current debates in affect studies
Chapter 2. Rosângela Rennó: Memory and Oblivion
Chapter 3. Our dark side: Milagros de la Torre
Chapter 4. Anne Ferran: Untimely images
Chapter 5. Fiona Pardington: Phrenology transfigured
Chapter 6. Ana Tiscornia: 'A feeling for the unfathomable'
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index