The aesthetics of uncertainty.- Wolff, Janet; Kitaj, R. B.

Columbia University Press c2008. Kitaj, R. B. (American painter and printmaker, 1932-2007) , Criticism and interpretation, Aesthetics 22 cm. ix, 184 p. : ill. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Idioma Inglés. Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts. Portrait of author on dust jacket. Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-177) and index. Contents Introduction: The desire for certainty--and the timeliness of doubt -- Groundless beauty : feminism and the aesthetics of uncertainty -- English art and principled aesthetics -- The iconic and the allusive : the case for beauty in post-Holocaust art -- The impolite boarder : Kitaj s diasporist art and its critical response -- Degenerate art in Britain : refugees, internees, and visual culture -- The sociological image -- Afterword: Aesthetics and ethics in the twenty-first century . Sobrecubierta deslucida. ISBN: 9780231140966 (cloth : alk. paper); 0231140967 (cl