02216nim 2200469Ka 450 991016506440332120240912110854.11-5159-9921-1(CKB)3710000001065528(BIP)060406893(ODN)ODN0003157892(EXLCZ)99371000000106552820170221d2017 uy 0enguruna---|||||spwrdacontentsrdamediacrdamediacrrdacarrierThe art of cruelty A reckoning. /Maggie NelsonUnabridged.Old Saybrook Tantor Audio20171 online resource (9 audio files) digitalUnabridged.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 might shock us into a less alienated state, or aid in the creation of a just social order. What to do now? When to look, when to turn away? Genre-busting author Maggie Nelson brilliantly navigates this contemporary predicament, with an eye to the question of whether or not focusing on representations of cruelty makes us cruel. In a journey through high and low culture (Kafka to reality TV), the visual to the verbal (Paul McCarthy to Brian Evenson), and the apolitical to the political (Francis Bacon to Kara Walker), Nelson offers a model of how one might balance strong ethical convictions with an equally strong appreciation for work that tests the limits of taste, taboo, and permissibility.Art of Cruelty, The NonfictionOverDriveArtOverDriveLiterary CriticismOverDriveSociologyOverDriveNonfiction.Art.Literary Criticism.Sociology.700/.453ART009000LIT025000SOC051000bisacshNelson Maggie1435705Gilbert TavianrtAUDIO9910165064403321The art of cruelty4288469UNINA