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This book is about the relationship between suffering, arts, and aesthetics and the ways in which it is shaped by social actors in cultural contexts that are not evoked in the canonical texts on art and aesthetics in the West. By providing new perspectives on how forms and experiences of social suffering are expressed within cultural grammars of vision, affect, and the everyday, contributors to this volume deal with how to render and to write about both highly visible and endemic forms of suffering.
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Hadj-Moussa, R., Nijhawan, M. (2014). Introduction. In: Hadj-Moussa, R., Nijhawan, M. (eds) Suffering, Art, and Aesthetics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137426086_1
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