Outrage: Art, Controversy, and Society (Hardcover)

List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments About the Contributors Introduction: A.Ritivoi , R.Howells & J.Schachter PART I: MAJOR THEMES, PREMISES, AND POSITIONS Controversy, Art, and Power; R.Howells A Primal Controversy: On the Destruction and Protection of Art in Western Culture; L.Burgess Recruiting and Nominating Participants for the Brooklyn Museum Controversy: The Contributions of New York City Print Journalists; P.Cramer PART II: REPRESENTING A CONTESTED PAST Pieces from the Past: Contestation around Francoist Monuments in Modern-Day Spain; C.Ruiz The Nation's Cathedral: Public Art and Competing Memories in Post-Communist Romania; A.Ritivoi Citizenship and Public Art: Chicago's Millennium Park; F.Evans PART III: CENSORING AND SUBVERTING: THE ARTS AND POLITICS Underexposed: The Controversial Censorship of Photographs of US War Dead; J.Alinder Testimony and Theater: The Controversy of Truth Telling in Post-Apartheid South Africa and Post-Conflict Northern Ireland; J.Keating-Miller Tracing Controversy in East German Film; S.Brockmann PART IV: THE PAST AND THE FUTURE OF ARTS CONTROVERSIES Remediating Arts Controversy in the Nineteenth Century; J.Klancher 'Giacinto Scelsi c'est moi!'; F.Sciannameo Beauty and Danger: The Aestheticization of Information in Contemporary Art; M.Ragona PART V: THE FUTURE OF CONTROVERSIES Art Fights: The Persistence of Controversy in Modern Aesthetics; M.Chander The End of the Modern Art Controversy and the Many Controversies over Art; A.Funk Index