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Author:   Maria Pia Di Bella (EHESS, France) ,  James Elkins (Art Institute of Chicago, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   4
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780415530378

ISBN 10:   0415530377
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   14 November 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface James Elkins and Maria Pia Di Bella Part 1: Expressive Pain Introduction James Elkins 1. Sculpture and Pathognomics in Classical France Tomas Macsotay 2. The Faked Pain of the Artist: Empathy or Sympathy, Compassion or Concealment? Kirstin Ringelberg 3. Empfindnis and Self-Inflicted Pain in Performance Art Helge Meyer 4. Sontag’s Regarding and Bataille’s Unknowing Louis Kaplan 5. A Painful Labor: Photography and Responsibility Sharon Sliwinski 6. On The Complicity Between Visual Analysis and Torture: A Cut-by-Cut Account of Lingchi Photographs James Elkins 7. Pain in Public Holly Edwards Part 2: Other Traditions Introduction Maria Pia Di Bella 8. Our Very Own Chinese Postcards from Hell Tim Brook 9. Flogging Photographs from the Congo Free State John Peffer 10. The Public Display of Torture Photos Dora Apel 11. A Feeling for Images: Medieval Personae in Contemporary Photojournalism Valentin Groebner 12. Confronting Horror: Emily Hobhouse and the Concentration Camp: Photographs of the South African War Michael Godby 13. Observing Executions: from Spectator to Witness Maria Pia Di Bella Roundtable Conversation

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Maria Pia Di Bella is Senior Research Fellow at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France. James Elkins is E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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