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Effecting her own reparation between affect theories and psychoanalysis, Susan Best gives us an impressive account of shame, guilt and witnessing in the work of four women photographers. Reparative Aesthetics is eloquent and persuasive, meticulous and critically astute; moving its reader beyond the impasses of identity politics, it enables us to look anew at how difficult and distressing national histories are being transformed. A deeply engaging book that confirms Susan Best's credentials as a discerning and skilled analyst of affect, art and politics. Informationen zum Autor Susan Best is Professor of Fine Art and Art Theory at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia. Recent publications include Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde (2011) which won the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand best book award in 2012. Klappentext By offering a new way of thinking about the role of politically engaged art, Susan Best opens up a new aesthetic field: reparative aesthetics. The book identifies an innovative aesthetic on the part of women photographers from the southern hemisphere, who against the dominant modes of criticality in political art, look at how cultural production can be reparative. "Reparative Aesthetics" contributes an entirely new theory to the interdisciplinary fields of aesthetics, affect studies, feminist theory, politics and photography. Conceptually innovative and fiercely original this book will move us beyond old political and cultural stalemates and into new terrain for analysis and reflection.Significant contribution to aesthetics and anti-aesthetic traditions and an innovative approach to representations of shameful or traumatic events of the past. Zusammenfassung By offering a new way of thinking about the role of politically engaged art, Susan Best opens up a new aesthetic field: reparative aesthetics. The book identifies an innovative aesthetic on the part of women photographers from the southern hemisphere, who against the dominant modes of criticality in political art, look at how cultural production can be reparative. The winner of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand best book award in 2017, Reparative Aesthetics contributes an entirely new theory to the interdisciplinary fields of aesthetics, affect studies, feminist theory, politics and photography. Conceptually innovative and fiercely original this book will move us beyond old political and cultural stalemates and into new terrain for analysis and reflection. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1 Guilt and Shame: Current Debates in Affect Studies Chapter 2 Witnessing Fever Chapter 3 Shame and the Convict Stain: Anne Ferran’s Lost to Worlds Chapter 4 Fiona Pardington: Colonialism and Repair in the Southern Seas Chapter 5 Rosângela Rennó: “Little Stories of the Downtrodden and the Vanquished” Chapter 6 Our dark side: Milagros de la Torre’s The Lost Steps ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex...
