{"product_id":"abject-visions-powers-of-horror-in-art-and-visual-culture-9780719096280","title":"Abject Visions Powers of Horror in Art and Visual","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn impressive list of authors examine how abjection can be discussed in relation to a host of different subjects, including marginality and gender.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The exploration of the implications of abjection: being abject, positioning as abject, for the visual and performing arts defines for this collection a double relevance. It adds to the study of abjection; it adds also to the analysis of a range of artistic practices.... most of the chapters will themselves become significant in their areas while the whole performs an enlivening re-engagement and expansion of abjection as a term in contemporary cultural analysis.'\u003cbr\u003eGriselda Pollock\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Approaching abjection  - Rina Arya and Nicholas Chare\u003cbr\u003e1. Art, abjection and bare life - John Lechte\u003cbr\u003e2. A lesbian, feminist and Canadian perspective: queering abjection - Jayne Wark\u003cbr\u003e3. Manet's Abject Surrealism - Nicholas Chare\u003cbr\u003e4. Juan Davila's abject after-image - Rex Butler and A. D. S. Donaldson\u003cbr\u003e5. Animals, art, abjection - Barbara Creed and Jeanette Hoorn \u003cbr\u003e6. The fragmented body as an index of abjection - Rina Arya\u003cbr\u003e7. Skin, body, self: the question of the abject in the work of Francis Bacon - Ernst van Alphen \u003cbr\u003e8. Abjection, melancholia and ambiguity in the works of Catherine Bell - Estelle Barrett\u003cbr\u003e9. Corpus Delicti - Kerstin Mey\u003cbr\u003e10. Art is on the way: from the abject opening of underworld to the shitty ending of oblivion - Calvin Thomas\u003cbr\u003e11. Base materials: performing the abject object - Daniel Watt\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037352329559,"sku":"9780719096280","price":72.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719096280.jpg?v=1750935405","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/abject-visions-powers-of-horror-in-art-and-visual-culture-9780719096280","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}