Concerning Consequences: Studies in Art, Destruction, and Trauma

by Kristine Stiles

Book Overview

Kristine Stiles has played a vital role in establishing trauma studies within the humanities. A formidable force in the art world, Stiles examines the significance of traumatic experiences both in the individual lives and works of artists and in contemporary international cultures since World War II. In Concerning Consequences , she considers some of the most notorious art of the second half of the twentieth century by artists who use their bodies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226774538
• ISBN13: 9780226774534
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"