02802nam a22002657a 4500 50888 50888 20190417160017.0 190416b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780141012377 :International Book Distributors ;Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi :113607 ;25/03/2019 303.6 SON Sontag, Susan, Regarding the Pain of others / Susan Sontag USA :Penguin Books 2004 117p. 22cm. 1206 Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity--a daily commonplace in our "society of spectacle." But are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the daily depiction of cruelty and horror? Is the viewer's perception of reality eroded by the universal availability of imagery intended to shock? In this investigation of the role of imagery in our culture, Susan Sontag cuts through circular arguments about how pictures can inspire dissent or foster violence as she takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and Dachau and Auschwitz to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and New York City on September 11, 2001. Sontag's new book, a startling reappraisal of the intersection of "information", "news," "art," and politics in the contemporary depiction of war and disaster, will forever alter our thinking about the uses and meanings of images in our world. Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity--a daily commonplace in our "society of spectacle." But are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the daily depiction of cruelty and horror? Is the viewer's perception of reality eroded by the universal availability of imagery intended to shock? In this investigation of the role of imagery in our culture, Susan Sontag cuts through circular arguments about how pictures can inspire dissent or foster violence as she takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and Dachau and Auschwitz to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and New York City on September 11, 2001. Sontag's new book, a startling reappraisal of the intersection of "information", "news," "art," and politics in the contemporary depiction of war and disaster, will forever alter our thinking about the uses and meanings of images in our world. Social Sciences Social processes Violence Fremder Feind War and society. Sontag, Susan BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2019-04-16 International Book Distributors 1206.00 3 2 303.6 SON 26322 2026-12-06 2026-11-03 17:47:13 2026-11-03 2019-04-16 BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2019-04-16 International Book Distributors 1206.00 0 303.6 SON 26323 2019-04-16 00:00:00 2019-04-16 BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2019-04-16 International Book Distributors 1206.00 0 303.6 SON 26324 2019-04-16 00:00:00 2019-04-16 BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2019-04-16 International Book Distributors 1206.00 1 303.6 SON 26325 2025-12-26 13:36:19 2025-12-26 2019-04-16 BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2019-04-16 International Book Distributors 1206.00 5 2 303.6 SON 26326 2026-05-05 18:50:17 2026-04-03 2019-04-16 BOOK