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Terror and the sublime in art and critical theory [electronic resource] : from Auschwitz to Hiroshima to September 11 / by Gene Ray.

By: Ray, Gene, 1963-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Studies in European culture and history: Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005Description: xiv, 188 p.Subject(s): Sublime, The, in art | Horror in art | Psychic trauma | Arts, European -- 20th century | Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 700/.4164 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Introduction : the hit -- Ch. 1. Reading the Lisbon earthquake : Adorno, Lyotard, and the contemporary sublime -- Ch. 2. Joseph Beuys and the "after-Auschwitz" sublime -- Ch. 3. Ground Zero : Hiroshima haunts "9/11" -- Ch. 4. Mirroring evil : Auschwitz, art and the "war on terror" -- Ch. 5. Little glass house of horrors : taking Damien Hirst seriously -- Ch. 6. Blasted moments : remarking a Hiroshima image -- Ch. 7. Installing a "new cosmopolitics" : Derrida and the writers -- Ch. 8. Working out and playing through : Boaz Arad's Hitler videos -- Ch. 9. Listening with the third ear : echoes from Ground Zero -- Ch. 10. Conditioning Adorno : "after Auschwitz" now.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the hit -- Ch. 1. Reading the Lisbon earthquake : Adorno, Lyotard, and the contemporary sublime -- Ch. 2. Joseph Beuys and the "after-Auschwitz" sublime -- Ch. 3. Ground Zero : Hiroshima haunts "9/11" -- Ch. 4. Mirroring evil : Auschwitz, art and the "war on terror" -- Ch. 5. Little glass house of horrors : taking Damien Hirst seriously -- Ch. 6. Blasted moments : remarking a Hiroshima image -- Ch. 7. Installing a "new cosmopolitics" : Derrida and the writers -- Ch. 8. Working out and playing through : Boaz Arad's Hitler videos -- Ch. 9. Listening with the third ear : echoes from Ground Zero -- Ch. 10. Conditioning Adorno : "after Auschwitz" now.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.