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Violent Embrace
Renee C. Hoogland
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Description for Violent Embrace
Paperback. An urgent defense of aesthetics and the power of art Num Pages: 232 pages, 59 illus. (16 colour). BIC Classification: ACXD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Instead of asking questions about the symbolic meaning or underlying "truth" of a work of art, renée c. hoogland is concerned with the actual "work" that it does in the world (whether intentionally or not). Why do we find ourselves in tears in front of an abstract painting? Why do some cartoons of the prophet Muhammad generate worldwide political outrage? What, in other words, is the compelling force of visual images, even-or especially-if they are nonfigurative, repulsive, or downright "ugly"? Rather than describing, analyzing, and interpreting artworks, hoogland approaches art as an event that obtains on the level of actualization, ... Read more
Instead of asking questions about the symbolic meaning or underlying "truth" of a work of art, renée c. hoogland is concerned with the actual "work" that it does in the world (whether intentionally or not). Why do we find ourselves in tears in front of an abstract painting? Why do some cartoons of the prophet Muhammad generate worldwide political outrage? What, in other words, is the compelling force of visual images, even-or especially-if they are nonfigurative, repulsive, or downright "ugly"? Rather than describing, analyzing, and interpreting artworks, hoogland approaches art as an event that obtains on the level of actualization, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781611684919
SKU
V9781611684919
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99-15
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