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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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Description
ix, 184 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Series Statement
Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
Subject
  • Aesthetics
  • Art > Philosophy
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
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