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Author: Maggie Nelson (CalArts)
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 21.10cm
Weight: 0.275kg
ISBN: 9780393343144
ISBN 10: 0393343146
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 18 September 2012
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
An important and frequently surprising book... could be read as the foundation for a post-avant-garde aesthetics... Nelson, who is also a poet, is such a graceful writer that I...just sat back and enjoyed the show. -- Laura Kipnis - New York Times Book Review [Nelson's] critiques of individual artists are delightfully fierce without being mean spirited... Fascinating and bracingly intelligent...The Art of Cruelty's prose is often gorgeous. -- Troy Jollimore - Boston Globe A lean-forward experience, and in its most transcendent moments, reading it can feel like having the best conversation of your life. -- Rachel Syme - NPR Books I hope that critics, and aspiring critics, and those who are interested in the relationship between art and ethics, read [The Art of Cruelty]. -- Susie Linfield - New Republic
I hope that critics, and aspiring critics, and those who are interested in the relationship between art and ethics, read [The Art of Cruelty]. -- Susie Linfield - New Republic A lean-forward experience, and in its most transcendent moments, reading it can feel like having the best conversation of your life. -- Rachel Syme - NPR Books [Nelson's] critiques of individual artists are delightfully fierce without being mean spirited... Fascinating and bracingly intelligent...The Art of Cruelty's prose is often gorgeous. -- Troy Jollimore - Boston Globe An important and frequently surprising book... could be read as the foundation for a post-avant-garde aesthetics... Nelson, who is also a poet, is such a graceful writer that I...just sat back and enjoyed the show. -- Laura Kipnis - New York Times Book Review
Nelson makes a compelling case for taking a new look at cruelty. Patrick Langley, The Times Literary Supplement She [Maggie Nelson] performs the feat of writing a very discursive text, meandering around its subject in wide loops and turns, and at the same time producing an incisive and astute consideration, not only of the art of cruelty but of art itself, and our relationship to it as spectators, participants and humans. Times Higher Education An important and frequently surprising book...could be read as the foundation for a post-avant-garde aesthetics. The New York Times Book Review ...fascinating and supremely intelligent account.. The Herald
Author Information
Maggie Nelson is the author of several books of poetry, autobiography, and criticism. She teaches at CalArts and lives in Los Angeles, California.
