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Regarding the pain of others
- Title
- Regarding the pain of others / Susan Sontag.
- Author
- Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
- Supplementary Content
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 03-6964 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 131 pages; 22 cm
- 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.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-131).
- Call Number
- JFD 03-6964
- ISBN
- 0374248583
- 9780374248581
- LCCN
- 2002192527
- 9780374248581
- OCLC
- 51446024
- Author
- Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.
- Title
- Regarding the pain of others / Susan Sontag.
- Imprint
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-131).
- Connect to:
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780374248581
- Research Call Number
- JFD 03-6964