Forfatter fødeår: 1933-2004
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Argues that modern cultural conditions have given way to a critical approach to aesthetics.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Features an analysis of our numbed response to images of horror. This title alters our thinking about the uses and meanings of images, and about the nature of war, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations of conscience.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Features a critique of photography that asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. This title examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Providing an insight into the mind of one of the leading intellectuals of the modern age, this title chronicles the cultural, moral, and political journeys of this renowned critic and artist at the height of her powers.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Fotografiet er en elegisk kunstart, en tusmørkekunst. Susan Sontag undersøger fotografiets potentiale som dokumentation, vidnesbyrd, kunst, manipulationsredskab og produkt –... Læs mere
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Reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, this study shows cancer for what it is.
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A selection from Susan Sontag's diaries (from 1947-1963) that takes us from early adolescence though to when Sontag was in her early thirties. It is an honest self-portrait which is also a revealing account of an artist and critic being born.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Offers a critique of photography that asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. This book examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Includes ardent pieces on writers from the author's own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W G Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva and Elizabeth Hardwick. This work shares her... Læs mere
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A historical romance, Sontag's book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the eighteenth century.... Læs mere
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A collection of essays that contains some of the important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics "The Aesthetics of Silence", an account of... Læs mere