Ray, Gene, 1963-

Terror and the sublime in art and critical theory from Auschwitz to Hiroshima to September 11 / [electronic resource] : by Gene Ray. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. - xiv, 188 p. - Studies in European culture and history . - Studies in European culture and history. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the hit -- Ch. 1. Reading the Lisbon earthquake : Adorno, Lyotard, and the contemporary sublime -- Ch. 2. Joseph Beuys and the "after-Auschwitz" sublime -- Ch. 3. Ground Zero : Hiroshima haunts "9/11" -- Ch. 4. Mirroring evil : Auschwitz, art and the "war on terror" -- Ch. 5. Little glass house of horrors : taking Damien Hirst seriously -- Ch. 6. Blasted moments : remarking a Hiroshima image -- Ch. 7. Installing a "new cosmopolitics" : Derrida and the writers -- Ch. 8. Working out and playing through : Boaz Arad's Hitler videos -- Ch. 9. Listening with the third ear : echoes from Ground Zero -- Ch. 10. Conditioning Adorno : "after Auschwitz" now.


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Aesthetics, Modern--20th century.
Arts, European--20th century.
Horror in art.
Psychic trauma.
Sublime, The, in art.


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