{"product_id":"aftershock-the-ethics-of-contemporary-transgressive-art-9781845115241","title":"Aftershock: The Ethics of Contemporary Transgressive Art","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAccused by the tabloid press of setting out to 'shock', controversial artworks are vigorously defended by art critics, who frequently downplay their disturbing emotional impact. This is the first book to subject contemporary art to a rigorous ethical exploration. It argues that, in favouring conceptual rather than emotional reactions, commentators actually fail to engage with the work they promote. Scrutinising notorious works by artists including Damien Hirst, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Richard Billingham, Marc Quinn, Sally Mann, Marcus Harvey, Hans Bellmer, Paul McCarthy, Tierney Gearon, and Tracey Emin, \"Aftershock\" insists on the importance of visceral, emotional and 'ethical' responses. Far from clouding our judgement, Cashell argues, shame, outrage or revulsion are the very emotions that such works set out to evoke. While also questioning the catch-all notion of 'transgression', this illuminating and controversial book neither jumps indiscriminately to the defence of shocking artworks nor dismisses them out of hand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Kieran Cashell discusses artists who use everything from soiled bed linens to blood to dead sharks in their works. Drawing on an impressive array of philosophical ideas, Cashell helps viewers tackle the messy details of art by Damien Hirst, Orlan, Marc Quinn, Tracy Emin, and more, as he provides a probing and subtle defense of the moral value of such recent 'transgressive' art.' - Cynthia A. Freeland Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy University of Houston, Texas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS Illustrations  Acknowledgements   \tIntroduction  The Incompatibility of Aesthetics and Contemporary Art Transgression: the War against Disinterestedness  The Ethics of Transgressive Art  1 \tEveryone Hates a Tourist The Ethical Analysis of Contemporary Art Disinterestedness and Cultural Tourism The Ethical Evaluation of Art:  Autonomism versus Moralism A Difficult Case: Marc Quinn and Alison Lapper Transgressive Art Meets the Autonomist-Moralist Model  Quinn and Lapper Revisited: A Contextualist Analysis  Conclusion   2 \tCarte Blanche  Marcus Harvey’s Myra Preliminary Approaches to the Ethical Analysis of Myra ‘Suffer Little Children’: The Facts of the Case Myra: Portrait of a Serial Killer Postmodernism and the Absence of the Referent Thesis Contextualist Ethical Analysis of Myra  Myra and Merited Response Theory Conclusion   3 \tAtrocity Exhibition Aesthetic Defences of the Work of Jake \u0026amp; Dinos Chapman  The Canonic Defence and the Chapmans’ Disasters of War The Transgressive Defence of Transgressive Art Hans Bellmer, Bataille and Authentic Transgression  The Trivial Pursuit of Psychoanalysis Evaluation of the Aesthetic Defences of Transgressive Art   Acknowledging the Immorality of the Chapmans’ Work Contextual Ethical Evaluation of Zygotic Acceleration   Conclusion   4 \tFearless Speech Tracey Emin’s Ethics of the Self ‘With Myself Always Myself Never Forgetting’: The Structure of Ethical Subjectivity Exposure without Reserve: Emotional Response and its Moral Significance Shame: An Existential Analysis Concluding Ethical Evaluation: Tracey Emin’s Fearless Speech  5 \tHorrorshow The Transvaluation of Morality in the work of Damien Hirst Obscene Objects of Pleasurable Fascination Non-Human Animals and Ethical Inclusion  Attending to the Other of the Animal: Art and the Ethics of Care Exquisite Corpse: Death and the Sublime Cognitive Immoralism The Artistic Transvaluation of Morality Aftershock: Tragic Sympathy and Meta-Ethical Significance Conclusion   Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771558003031,"sku":"9781845115241","price":30.43,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845115241.jpg?v=1758728264","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/aftershock-the-ethics-of-contemporary-transgressive-art-9781845115241","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}