Representations of Pain in Art and Visual Culture

ISBN-13: 9781138108417 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 216 str.

Maria Pia Di Bella; James Elkins

Opis

Recently there have been a number of texts on images of pain by authors such as Elaine Scarry, George Roeder, Susan Sontag, Ulrich Baer, Georges Didi-Huberman, and Giorgio Agamben. In this volume, contributors add to the discussion on images of pain by providing thoughtful scholarly accounts of representations of pain in art and the media. The book covers areas such as contemporary performance art, international photojournalism, surrealism, and Renaissance and Baroque art, with imagery of Congolese whippings, contemporary American execution chambers, Abu Ghraib, lynching photographs, and concentration camps, among others.

Spis treści

Preface James Elkins and Maria Pia Di Bella  Part 1: Expressive Pain  Introduction James Elkins  1. Sculpture and Pathognomics in Classical France Tomas Macsotay  2. The Faked Pain of the Artist: Empathy or Sympathy, Compassion or Concealment? Kirstin Ringelberg  3. Empfindnis and Self-Inflicted Pain in Performance Art Helge Meyer  4. Sontag’s Regarding and Bataille’s Unknowing Louis Kaplan  5. A Painful Labor: Photography and Responsibility Sharon Sliwinski  6. On The Complicity Between Visual Analysis and Torture: A Cut-by-Cut Account of Lingchi Photographs James Elkins  7. Pain in Public Holly Edwards  Part 2: Other Traditions  Introduction Maria Pia Di Bella  8. Our Very Own Chinese Postcards from Hell Tim Brook  9. Flogging Photographs from the Congo Free State John Peffer  10. The Public Display of Torture Photos Dora Apel  11. A Feeling for Images: Medieval Personae in Contemporary Photojournalism Valentin Groebner  12. Confronting Horror: Emily Hobhouse and the Concentration Camp: Photographs of the South African War Michael Godby  13. Observing Executions: from Spectator to Witness Maria Pia Di Bella  Roundtable Conversation

O autorze

Maria Pia Di Bella is Senior Research Fellow at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France.

James Elkins is E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.