Reparative aesthetics : witnessing in contemporary art photography / Susan Best.

By offering a new way of thinking about the role of politically engaged art, Susan Best opens up a new aesthetic field: reparative aesthetics. The book identifies an innovative aesthetic on the part of women photographers from the southern hemisphere, who against the dominant modes of criticality in...

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Main Author: Best, Susan (Author)
Other title:Witnessing in contemporary art photography.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Guilt and shame: current debates in affect studies
  • Witnessing fever
  • Shame and the convict stain: Anne Ferran's Lost to Worlds
  • Fiona Pardington: Colonialism and repair in the Southern Seas
  • Rosângela Rennó: "Little stories of the Downtrodden and the Vanquished'
  • Our dark side: Milagros de la Torre's The Lost Steps.