Reparative Aesthetics: Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography

by Susan Best

Overview

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 criticality in political art, look at how cultural production can be reparative.

The winner of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand best book award in 2017, Reparative Aesthetics contributes an entirely new theory to the interdisciplinary fields of aesthetics, affect studies, feminist theory, politics and photography. Conceptually innovative and fiercely original this book will move us beyond old political and cultural stalemates and into new terrain for analysis and reflection.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472525758
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	10/20/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

Susan Best is Professor of Fine Art and Art Theory at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia. Recent publications include Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde (2011) which won the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand best book award in 2012.
Susan Best is Professor of Fine Art and Art Theory at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia. Recent publications include Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde (2011) which won the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand best book award in 2012.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction
Chapter 1 Guilt and Shame: Current Debates in Affect Studies

Chapter 2 Witnessing Fever

Chapter 3 Shame and the Convict Stain: Anne Ferran's Lost to Worlds

Chapter 4 Fiona Pardington: Colonialism and Repair in the Southern Seas

Chapter 5 Rosângela Rennó: “Little Stories of the Downtrodden and the Vanquished”

Chapter 6 Our dark side: Milagros de la Torre's The Lost Steps

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index