Reparative aesthetics : witnessing in contemporary art photography /
"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 critical...
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.,
2016.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of 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.
