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The aesthetics of uncertainty / Janet Wolff.

Author/creator Wolff, Janet
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, ©2008.
Descriptionix, 184 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Subject(s)
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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [143]-177) and index.
LCCN 2008008542
ISBN9780231140966 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0231140967 (cloth : alk. paper)

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