Beauty of a Social Problem - Photography, Autonomy, Economy

Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem's "beauty and attraction" invisible. The author explores the effort to overcome this difficulty through a study of several contemporary artist-photographers whose work speaks to questions of political economy. Zusammenfassung Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem's "beauty and attraction" invisible. The author explores the effort to overcome this difficulty through a study of several contemporary artist-photographers whose work speaks to questions of political economy.

Product details

• Authors: Walter Benn Michaels, Michaels Walter Benn
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.07.2015
• EAN: 9780226210261
• ISBN: 978-0-226-21026-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Photography & photographs, Theory of art, ART / Criticism & Theory, PHOTOGRAPHY / General, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), History of Art, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Art & design styles: from c 1960, Photography and photographs, aesthetic; autonomy; capital; class; form