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Ethics and Images of Pain (Paperback)
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Ethics and Images of Pain (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
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Few phenomena are as formative of our experience of the visual
world as displays of suffering. But what does it mean to have an
ethical experience of disturbing or traumatizing images? What kind
of ethical proposition does an image of pain mobilize? How may the
spectator learn from and make use of the painful image as a source
of ethical reflection? Engaging with a wide range of visual
media--from painting, theatre, and sculpture, to photography, film,
and video--this interdisciplinary collection of essays by leading
and emerging scholars of visual culture offers a reappraisal of the
increasingly complex relationship between images of pain and the
ethics of viewing. Ethics and Images of Pain reconsiders the
persistent and ever pertinent nexus of aesthetics and ethics, the
role of painful images as generators of unpredictable forms of
affect, the moral transformation of spectatorship, the ambivalence
of the witness and the representation of afflication as a
fundamental form of our shared scopic experience. The instructive
and illuminating essays in the collection introduce a
phenomenological context in which to make sense of our current
ecology of excruciating images, one that accentuates notions of
responsibility, empathy, and imagination. Contributors trace the
images of pain across a miscellany of case studies, and amongst the
topics addressed are: the work of artists as disparate as Doris
Salcedo, Anselm Kiefer and Bendik Riis; photographs from Abu Ghraib
and Rwanda; Hollywood war films and animated documentaries;
performances of self-immolations and incidents of police brutality
captured on mobile phones.
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