· A poet and memoirist, Nelson is the author of Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions, about women poets of the s, and a faculty member at Cal Arts near Los Angeles where she taught a class, “The Art of Cruelty,” for three years. She is mono-maniacal about why visual cruelties captivate her and seed her www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins. A poet and memoirist, Nelson is the author of Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions, about women poets of the s, and a faculty member at Cal Arts near Los Angeles where she taught a class, “The Art of Cruelty,” for three years. She is mono-maniacal about why visual cruelties captivate her and seed her ambivalence. · Writing in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about representations of cruelty and violence in art. From Sylvia Plath’s poetry to Francis Bacon’s paintings, from the Saw franchise to Yoko Ono’s performance art, Nelson’s nuanced exploration across the artistic landscape ultimately offers a Brand: Norton, W. W. Company, Inc.
The Art Of Cruelty A Reckoning written by Maggie Nelson and has been published by W. W. Norton Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Art categories. The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning - Ebook written by Maggie Nelson. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning. Listen to The Art of Cruelty by Maggie Nelson with a free trial.\nListen to bestselling audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiveness of images of torture, horror, and war has all but demolished the twentieth-century hope that such imagery.
In this collection of essays, Maggie Nelson looks at the role of cruelty and violence in art and poses ethical questions surrounding that topic. Her examples take in fine art, poetry, performance art, dance, film, photography and television and her criticism has a feminist and Buddhist slant. Maggie Nelson’s “reckoning” with the problem in The Art of Cruelty, as fascinating as it is frustrating, takes readers through these and similar efforts by poets, playwrights, and novelists. pages, $ by Maggie Hennefeld In a surprisingly redemptive and refreshingly accessible book about the artis- tic practice of “cruelty”—from the interwar political avant-garde to present day feminist performance art—Maggie Nelson locates the impulse for “cru- elty” across a broad range of contexts and discourses in order to clear the ground for thinking about violence more methodically.
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