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The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
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Writing in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about representations of cruelty and violence in art. From Sylvia Plath's poetry to Francis Bacon's paintings, from the Saw franchise to Yoko Ono's performance art, Nelson's nuanced exploration across the artistic landscape ultimately offers a model of how one might balance strong ethical convictions with an equally strong appreciation for work that tests the limits of taste, taboo, and permissibility.
Book Details
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: Aug 13rd, 2012
- Pages: 304
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.40in - 0.80in - 0.53lb
- EAN: 9780393343144
- Categories: • Criticism & Theory• Popular Culture• Subjects & Themes - General
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Anita Felicelli is a fiction writer.
Read @jessjblough’s lovely +thoughtful primer on brilliant Maggie Nelson’s genre-bending books - The Argonauts, Bluets, The Red Parts, The Art of Cruelty, On Freedom. And register for her CBC conversation with John Freeman and an exciting special guest on May 19 at 5 pm Pacific… https://t.co/MJsMSYPRs3
words, the web, and worlds to come ⚡️ @reboot_hq @substackinc
@_joicetang_ maggie nelson's the art of cruelty & definitely yes, esp if you like art / lit crit! (but even if you don't — she's an entertaining writer & made me wanna look up a ton of the work she references along the way)
LOVING SYLVIA PLATH: A RECLAMATION forthcoming w/W.W. Norton & Co. 2022 NJ Individual Artist Fellow. Fulbright Scholar. https://t.co/rpKdCcVCrE
Once, in Disneyworld, the baby fell asleep in the stroller & my husband took the big kids on Space Mountain & I sat on a concrete bench, wearing a mask, surrounded by loud Americans & read Maggie Nelson's The Art of Cruelty & this was *the* on-brand moment of my life.
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What people are saying
Anita Felicelli is a fiction writer.
Read @jessjblough’s lovely +thoughtful primer on brilliant Maggie Nelson’s genre-bending books - The Argonauts, Bluets, The Red Parts, The Art of Cruelty, On Freedom. And register for her CBC conversation with John Freeman and an exciting special guest on May 19 at 5 pm Pacific… https://t.co/MJsMSYPRs3
words, the web, and worlds to come ⚡️ @reboot_hq @substackinc
@_joicetang_ maggie nelson's the art of cruelty & definitely yes, esp if you like art / lit crit! (but even if you don't — she's an entertaining writer & made me wanna look up a ton of the work she references along the way)