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The Aesthetics of Violence - Art, Fiction, Drama and Film (Paperback)
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The Aesthetics of Violence - Art, Fiction, Drama and Film (Paperback)
Series: Futures of the Archive
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Violence at an aesthetic remove from the spectator or reader has
been a key element of narrative and visual arts since Greek
antiquity. Here Robert Appelbaum explores the nature of mimesis,
aggression, the affects of antagonism and victimization and the
political uses of art throughout history. He examines how violence
in art is formed, contextualised and used by its audiences and
readers. Bringing traditional German aesthetic and social theory to
bear on the modern problem of violence in art, Appelbaum engages
theorists including Kant, Schiller, Hegel, Adorno and Gadamer. The
book takes the reader from Homer and Shakespeare to slasher films
and performance art, showing how violence becomes at once a
language, a motive, and an idea in the experience of art. It
addresses the controversies head on, taking a nuanced view of the
subject, understanding that art can damage as well as redeem. But
it concludes by showing that violence (in the real world) is a
necessary condition of art (in the world of mimetic play).
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