Human Rights in Camera

Informationen zum Autor Sharon Sliwinski is assistant professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies and the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario. Klappentext Examines the visual images that have accompanied human rights struggles and the responses people have had to them. This title considers a series of historical events! including the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and the Holocaust! to illustrate that universal human rights have come to be imagined through aesthetic experience. Zusammenfassung Examines the visual images that have accompanied human rights struggles and the responses people have had to them. This title considers a series of historical events! including the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and the Holocaust! to illustrate that universal human rights have come to be imagined through aesthetic experience.

Product details

• Authors: Sharon Sliwinski, SLIWINSKI SHARON
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2011
• EAN: 9780226762753
• ISBN: 978-0-226-76275-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, ART / History / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, History of Art, Human rights, civil rights, Art styles not defined by date