The Art of Cruelty A Reckoning [Hardcover]

Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiveness of images of torture, horror, and war has all but demolished the twentieth-century hope that such imagery might shock us into a less alienated state, or aid in the creation of a just social order. What to do now? When to look, when to turn away?A fresh new voice in art and cultural criticism takes on the day's most pressing questions about representations of violence in art.