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Author Ray, Gene, 1963-

Title Terror and the sublime in art and critical theory [electronic resource] : from Auschwitz to Hiroshima to September 11 / by Gene Ray.

Imprint New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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Description xiv, 188 p.
Series Studies in European culture and history
Studies in European culture and history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : the hit -- Ch. 1. Reading the Lisbon earthquake : Adorno, Lyotard, and the contemporary sublime -- Ch. 2. Joseph Beuys and the "after-Auschwitz" sublime -- Ch. 3. Ground Zero : Hiroshima haunts "9/11" -- Ch. 4. Mirroring evil : Auschwitz, art and the "war on terror" -- Ch. 5. Little glass house of horrors : taking Damien Hirst seriously -- Ch. 6. Blasted moments : remarking a Hiroshima image -- Ch. 7. Installing a "new cosmopolitics" : Derrida and the writers -- Ch. 8. Working out and playing through : Boaz Arad's Hitler videos -- Ch. 9. Listening with the third ear : echoes from Ground Zero -- Ch. 10. Conditioning Adorno : "after Auschwitz" now.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Sublime, The, in art.
Horror in art.
Psychic trauma.
Arts, European -- 20th century.
Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 1403979448
140396940X (alk. paper)

 
    
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