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The aesthetics of uncertainty
- Title
- The aesthetics of uncertainty / Janet Wolff.
- Author
- Wolff, Janet
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 184 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Series Statement
- Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-177) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The desire for certainty--and the timeliness of doubt -- Groundless beauty : feminism and the aesthetics of uncertainty -- English art and principled aesthetics -- The iconic and the allusive : the case for beauty in post-Holocaust art -- The impolite boarder : Kitaj's "diasporist" art and its critical response -- "Degenerate art" in Britain : refugees, internees, and visual culture -- The sociological image -- Afterword: Aesthetics and ethics in the twenty-first century.
- Call Number
- JFD 08-3811
- ISBN
- 9780231140966 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0231140967 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008008542
- OCLC
- 213222506
- Author
- Wolff, Janet.
- Title
- The aesthetics of uncertainty / Janet Wolff.
- Imprint
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
- Series
- Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-177) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 08-3811