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Practical aesthetics : events, affects and art after 9/11
- Title
- Practical aesthetics : events, affects and art after 9/11 / Jill Bennett.
- Author
- Bennett, Jill, 1963-
- Publication
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | N72.S6 B466 2012 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xix, 234 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Practical Aesthetics brings a pursuit, long seen as rarefied and indulgent, out of the ivory tower and down to Ground Zero. Theoretically ambitious, fiercely original, it is a radical new account of art's rootedness in the social world and of the value of aesthetics to contemporary society. Beginning with the cultural watershed of 9/11, internationally-renowned scholar Jill Bennett explores artistic developments in relation to current events to argue that understanding aesthetics is as vital to social and political theory as it is to the arts. Taking as its starting-point a definition of art as the critical, self-conscious manipulation of media, Bennett examines a wide range of events from the 'War on Terror' to the football World Cup to elucidate how aesthetic perception works in a social field, a process that begins with the rich emotional content of the visual imagery with which we are constantly bombarded"--Page 4 of cover.
- Series Statement
- Radical aesthetics, radical art
- Uniform Title
- Radical aesthetics, radical art
- Alternative Title
- Events, affects and art after nine eleven
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-222) and index.
- Contents
- Practical aesthetics: beyond discipline -- One event after the other -- Atmospheric affects: past events and present feeling -- Intermedia: field and detail -- Presence of politicians -- Unimaginable events and distant disasters -- Compassion, resentment and the emotional life of images.
- ISBN
- 9781780761442
- 1780761449
- 9781780761459
- 1780761457
- LCCN
- 2012288889
- OCLC
- ocn768569585
- 768569585
- SCSB-1659682
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library