The Aesthetics of Uncertainty

Janet Wolff

September, 2008
Cloth, 200 pages, 20 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14096-6
$34.50 / £24.00

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Desire for Certainty-and the Timeliness of Doubt

1. Groundless Beauty: Feminism and the Aesthetics of Uncertainty

2. English Art and Principled Aesthetics

3. The Iconic and the Allusive: The Case for Beauty in Post-Holocaust Art

4. The Impolite Boarder: Kitaj's "Diasporist" Art and Its Critical Response

5. "Degenerate Art" in Britain: Refugees, Internees and Visual Culture

6. The Sociological Image

Afterword: Aesthetics and Ethics in the Twenty-first Century

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• Aesthetics
• Art History

Series

• Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts

About the Author

Janet Wolff is professor of cultural sociology and director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts at the University of Manchester. She is the author of The Social Production of Art, Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art, Feminine Sentences: Essays on Women and Culture, Resident Alien: Feminist Cultural Criticism, and AngloModern: Painting and Modernity in Britain and the United States.

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