Art of Cruelty A Reckoning

Name: Art of Cruelty A Reckoning
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780393343144

ISBN-10: 0393343146

ISBN-13: 9780393343144

Edition: 2012

Authors: Maggie Nelson

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Semester Rental: $22.19 Due date: 8/13/2024

Rental notice: supplementary materials (access codes, CDs, etc.) are not guaranteed with rental orders.

Buy new: $9.44

Marketplace

5 new & used from $6.72

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Maggie Nelson has established herself as one of our foremost cultural critics in this landmark work about representations of violence in art.An important and frequently surprising book . . . could be read as the foundation for a post-avant-garde aesthetics. . . . Nelson, who is also a poet, is such a graceful writer that I . . . just sat back and enjoyed the show.—Laura Kipnis, New York Times Book Review, front-page review[Nelson’s] critiques of individual artists are delightfully fierce without being mean spirited. . . . Fascinating and bracingly intelligent. . . . The Art of Cruelty’s prose is often -gorgeous.—Troy Jollimore, Boston GlobeA lean-forward experience, and in its most…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/13/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English



Styles of Imprisonment


Theaters of Cruelty


Great to Watch


Captivity, Catharsis


Everything is Nice


They're Only Dolls


The Golden Rule


Nobody Said No


The Brutality of Fact


Who We Are


A Situation of Meat


Precariousness


Inflicted


Face


Rings of Action


Rarer and Better Things


Acknowledgments


Bibliography


Index