The Resource Regarding the pain of others, Susan Sontag
Regarding the pain of others, Susan Sontag
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The item Regarding the pain of others, Susan Sontag represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.This item is available to borrow from 5 library branches.
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The item Regarding the pain of others, Susan Sontag represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 5 library branches.
- Summary
- Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity--a daily commonplace in our "society of spectacle." But are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the daily depiction of cruelty and horror? Is the viewer's perception of reality eroded by the universal availability of imagery intended to shock? In this investigation of the role of imagery in our culture, Susan Sontag cuts through circular arguments about how pictures can inspire dissent or foster violence as she takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and Dachau and Auschwitz to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and New York City on September 11, 2001. Sontag's new book, a startling reappraisal of the intersection of "information", "news," "art," and politics in the contemporary depiction of war and disaster, will forever alter our thinking about the uses and meanings of images in our world
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st edition.
- Extent
- 131 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374248581
- Label
- Regarding the pain of others
- Title
- Regarding the pain of others
- Statement of responsibility
- Susan Sontag
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity--a daily commonplace in our "society of spectacle." But are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the daily depiction of cruelty and horror? Is the viewer's perception of reality eroded by the universal availability of imagery intended to shock? In this investigation of the role of imagery in our culture, Susan Sontag cuts through circular arguments about how pictures can inspire dissent or foster violence as she takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and Dachau and Auschwitz to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and New York City on September 11, 2001. Sontag's new book, a startling reappraisal of the intersection of "information", "news," "art," and politics in the contemporary depiction of war and disaster, will forever alter our thinking about the uses and meanings of images in our world
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1933-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sontag, Susan
- Dewey number
- 303.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HM554
- LC item number
- .S65 2003
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- War and society
- War photography
- War in art
- Photojournalism
- Atrocities
- Violence
- Label
- Regarding the pain of others, Susan Sontag
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-131)
- Control code
- ocm51446024
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- 1st edition.
- Extent
- 131 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374248581
- Isbn Type
- (hc : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2002192527
- Label
- Regarding the pain of others, Susan Sontag
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-131)
- Control code
- ocm51446024
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- 1st edition.
- Extent
- 131 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374248581
- Isbn Type
- (hc : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2002192527
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