Suffering, Art, and Aesthetics

Conerly Casey, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Roma Chatterji, Delhi University, India Nathalie Heinich, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France Bogumil Jewsiewicki, Université Laval, Canada Fuyuki Kurasawa, York University, Canada Caterina Pasquilino, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France Anna Schultz, Stanford University, USA

Introduction: Suffering in Art: Redrawing the Boundaries; Ratiba Hadj-Moussa and Michael Nijhawan 1. In Praise of Ambiguity: On the Visual Economy of Distant Suffering; Fuyuki Kurasawa 2. Denial and Challenges of Modernity: Suffering, Recognition, and Dignity in Sammy Baloji's Photography; Bogumil Jewsiewicki 3. Events, Images, and Affect: The Tsunami in the Folk Art of Bengal; Roma Chatterji 4. Vocalizations of Suffering; Caterina Pasqualino 5. The Art of Suffering: Postcolonial (Mis)Apprehensions of Nigerian Art; Conerly Casey 6. The Past's Suffering and the Body's Suffering: Algerian Cinema and the Challenge of Experience; Ratiba Hadj-Moussa 7. The Diasporic Rasa of Suffering: Notes on the Aesthetics of Image and Sound in Indo-Caribbean and Sikh Art; Michael Nijhawan and Anna C. Schultz 8. Suffering, Animals, Spectators, and the Challenge of Contemporary Art; Nathalie Heinich