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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Erscheint auch als: Michaels, Walter Benn. Beauty of a Social Problem : Photography, Autonomy, Economy. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2015 Druck-Ausgabe |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Walter Benn Michaels |
ISBN: | 9780226210438 022621043X |
OCLC Number: | 912498404 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Formal Feelings -- 2. Neoliberal Aesthetics -- 3. The Experience of Meaning -- 4. The Art of Inequality: Then and Now -- 5. Never Again, or Nevermore -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. |
Responsibility: | Walter Benn Michaels. |
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Abstract:
Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem's "beauty and attraction" invisible. The author explores the effort to overcome this difficulty through a study of several contemporary artist-photographers whose work speaks to questions of political economy.
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