Regarding the Pain of Others - Rilegato

Sontag, Susan

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ISBN 10: 0241142075 ISBN 13: 9780241142073

Casa editrice: Hamish Hamilton, 2003

Riassunto

'Probably the most intelligent woman in America' Jonathan Miller

A startling reappraisal of the intersection of information, news, art, and politics in the contemporary depiction of war and disaster.

In her first full-scale investigation of the role of imagery in our culture since her classic book ON PHOTOGRAPHY defined the terms of the debate 25 years ago, Sontag cuts through circular arguments about how pictures can inspire dissent or foster violence. She takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity -- from Goya's THE DISASTERS OF WAR to contemporary horrific images of Rwanda, Sarajevo and New York on September 11th 2001 -- and challenges our thinking about the uses and meanings of images in our world.

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L'autore:

Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, AIDS and its Metaphors and Regarding the Pain of Others. She is also the author of four novels, a collection of stories and several plays. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.

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• Editore: Hamish Hamilton
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0241142075
• ISBN 13: 9780241142073
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 128