Full Description
Artistic expression frequently engages with the question of suffering. In so doing, it confronts the gravity and complexity of the human condition. This volume investigates the relationship between art and suffering. In short, the contributors to this volume collectively demonstrate that suffering is an undisputed and shareable motivating experience.
This collection features original essays that focus on the subject of art and suffering, including topics such as the representation of violence and the intersections of art and human rights. Some of the key questions explored are as follows:
How has suffering motivated artists around the world?How have artists used their platforms to call attention to human rights abuses?How can suffering be incorporated responsibly and ethically in works of art?What role does art play in the struggle against violations of human dignity and the promotion of building a more equitable world?Each essay is complemented by full-color reproductions of artistic works that illustrate the concepts being discussed, including a graphic essay on the topic of "comfort women."
Contents
List of Figures
Preface: Art and Suffering - Mark Celinscak and Curtis Hutt
I. Approaches to Art and Suffering
1. Human Rights and Art - Hurst Hannum
2. Art History and Human Suffering: Pasts, Pedagogies, and Possibilities - Adrian Duran
3. Creative Interventions: Art against Trauma - Jen Webb, Jordan Williams, and Anthony Eaton
4. A Life's Work: John Dewey on Art and Education for Democracy - Curtis Hutt
II. Art and Suffering
5. Suffering and its Defeat in Renaissance Art: Reading Titian and El Greco through Kierkegaard and Maimonides - Nehama Verbin
6. Representing the Unseen: The Primacy of Visual Testimony in Official British War Art - Paul Gough
7. Beyond Redemption: Käthe Kollwitz and the Tragedy of War - Jay Winter
8. The Anguish of Liberation: War Artists and the Holocaust - Mark Celinscak
9. The Bloody Divide 1947: Facing Trauma through Art - Mehnaz M. Afridi
10. The Art of the Arpilleras - Marjorie Agosín
11. Art and the (Ir)resolution of Suffering - David Tollerton
12. Just Is After
