Beauty Violence Representation

<p>This volume explores the relationship among beauty violence and representation in a broad range of artistic and cultural texts including literature visual art theatre film and music. </p><p>Charting diversifying interests in the subject of violence and beauty dealing with the multiple inflections of these questions and representing a spectrum of voices the volume takes its place in a growing body of recent critical work that takes violence and representation as its object. This collection offers a unique opportunity however to address a significant gap in the critical field for it seeks to interrogate specifically the nexus or interface between beauty and violence. While other texts on violence make use of regimes of representation as their subject matter and consider the effects of aestheticization beauty as a critical category is conspicuously absent. Furthermore the book aims to rehabilitate beauty implicitly conceptualized as politically or ethically regressive by postmodern anti-aesthetics cultural positions and further facilitate its come-back into critical discourse.</p>