Tears for Tears: Aesthetics in Grief Minor

by Sandra Ruiz

How minoritarian artists grapple with both personal and collective grief

Tears for Tears documents moments of tension, negotiation, transformation, and incommensurability between singular loss and mass death through the work of contemporary minoritarian artists. These artists interrogate the cultural, social, and political enmeshment of death by questioning the interior and exterior conditions of loss Charting communal, singular,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479826669
• ISBN13: 9781479826667
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 256 Pages