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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54426719 Title: Regarding the pain of others Author: Susan Sontag Publisher: New York : Picador, 2004, ©2003. ISBN/ISSN: 0312422199 9780312422196 OCLC:54426719

  
  

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Regarding the pain of others

Author:	Susan Sontag
Publisher:	New York : Picador, 2004, ©2003.
Edition/Format:	Print book : English : 1st Picador edView all editions and formats
Summary:	Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity--a daily commonplace in our "society of spectacle." But are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the daily depiction of cruelty and horror? Is the viewer's perception of reality eroded by the universal availability of imagery intended to shock? In this investigation of the role of imagery in our culture, Susan Sontag cuts through circular arguments about how pictures can inspire dissent or foster violence as she takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and Dachau and Auschwitz to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and New York City on September 11, 2001. Sontag's new book, a startling reappraisal of the intersection of "information", "news," "art," and politics in the contemporary depiction of war and disaster, will forever alter our thinking about the uses and meanings of images in our world.  Read more...
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Subjects	War and society. War photography -- Social aspects. War in art -- Social aspects. View all subjects
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