Regarding the Pain of Others

✍ Scribed by Susan Sontag

• Book ID: 100239636
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux;Picador
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 71 KB
• Edition: 13. [Nachdr.]
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1466853573

✦ Synopsis

A brilliant, clear-eyed new consideration of the visual representation of violence in our culture --its ubiquity, meanings, and effects
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 her first full-scale investigation of the role of imagery in our culture since her now-classic book****On Photography defined the terms of the debate twenty-five years ago, 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...