The aesthetics of uncertainty / Janet Wolff.
| Author/creator | Wolff, Janet |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008. |
| Description | ix, 184 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts. ^A699779 |
| Contents | Introduction: The desire for certainty--and the timeliness of doubt -- Groundless beauty : feminism and the aesthetics of uncertainty -- English art and principled aesthetics -- The iconic and the allusive : the case for beauty in post-Holocaust art -- The impolite boarder : Kitaj's "diasporist" art and its critical response -- "Degenerate art" in Britain : refugees, internees, and visual culture -- The sociological image -- Afterword: Aesthetics and ethics in the twenty-first century. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-177) and index. |
| LCCN | 2008008542 |
| ISBN | 9780231140966 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0231140967 (cloth : alk. paper) |