The Art of Violence

The Art of Violence
Author: S. J. Rozan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1643135325

In the latest mystery from S. J. Rozan, Bill Smith and Lydia Chin must track down a serial killer stalking women in New York's contemporary art scene. Former client Sam Tabor, just out of Greenhaven after a five-year homicide stint, comes to Bill Smith with a strange request. A colossally talented painter whose parole was orchestrated by art world movers and shakers, Sam's convinced that since he's been out he's killed two women. He doesn't remember the killings but he wants Smith, one of the few people he trusts, to investigate and prove him either innocent or guilty. NYPD detective Angela Grimaldi thinks Sam's "a weirdo." Smith has no argument with that: diagnosed with a number of mental disorders over the years, Sam self-medicates with alcohol, loses focus (except when he's painting), and has few friends. But Smith doesn't think that adds up to serial killer. He enlists Lydia Chin to help prove it. Smith and Chin delve into the world surrounding Sam Tabor, including his brother, two NYPD detectives, and various other artists, dealers, collectors, curators, and art connoisseurs. No answers appear. Evidence is found and lost again. And more bodies turn up. Sam Tabor might be just a crazy artist. But someone is killing people in his orbit. If not Sam, who? Why? And who will be next?

The Art of Cruelty

The Art of Cruelty
Author: Maggie Nelson
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-08-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0393343146

"This is criticism at its best." —Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times Writing in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about representations of cruelty and violence in art. From Sylvia Plath’s poetry to Francis Bacon’s paintings, from the Saw franchise to Yoko Ono’s performance art, Nelson’s nuanced exploration across the artistic landscape ultimately offers a model of how one might balance strong ethical convictions with an equally strong appreciation for work that tests the limits of taste, taboo, and permissibility.

A Site of Struggle

A Site of Struggle
Author: Sampada Aranke
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2022-04-26
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0691209278

Examines the vast array of art produced by African Americans in response to the continuing impact of anti-Black violence and how it is used to protest, process, mourn and memorialize those events.

Histories of Violence

Histories of Violence
Author: Brad Evans
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2017-01-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1783602406

While there is a tacit appreciation that freedom from violence will lead to more prosperous relations among peoples, violence continues to be deployed for various political and social ends. Yet the problem of violence still defies neat description, subject to many competing interpretations. Histories of Violence offers an accessible yet compelling examination of the problem of violence as it appears in the corpus of canonical figures – from Hannah Arendt to Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault to Slavoj Žižek – who continue to influence and inform contemporary political, philosophical, sociological, cultural, and anthropological study. Written by a team of internationally renowned experts, this is an essential interrogation of post-war critical thought as it relates to violence.

The Frenzied Dance of Art and Violence

The Frenzied Dance of Art and Violence
Author: David Gussak
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2022
Genre: Violence in art
ISBN: 0190064498

Angelic demons : the capricious creators -- Continuing the dance : how art therapy both reveals and mitigates violence and aggression.

Violence, the Arts, and Willa Cather

Violence, the Arts, and Willa Cather
Author: Joseph R. Urgo
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780838641576

Willa Cather was devoted to making art in the face of violence. Here, she emerges as a resource for survival in an age of terror, an artist who encourages her readers to feel at home in the nexus of creativity and terror, and to seek creative responses to the horror of human life.

Hikuta

Hikuta
Author: Dok Lee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 67
Release: 1993
Genre: Martial arts
ISBN:

Sudden Violence

Sudden Violence
Author: Greg Jones
Publisher: Paladin Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1988-07-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780873644655

The best way to survive a streetfight is to end it before it starts, and that is the essence of san soo kung fu - to brutally take your opponent out before he gets a chance to attack! When some street thug intends to do you bodily harm, it is not the time to pull punches. So be sudden! Be violent! And win.

The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning

The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
Author: Maggie Nelson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2011-07-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0393082237

"This is criticism at its best." —Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times Writing in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about representations of cruelty and violence in art. From Sylvia Plath’s poetry to Francis Bacon’s paintings, from the Saw franchise to Yoko Ono’s performance art, Nelson’s nuanced exploration across the artistic landscape ultimately offers a model of how one might balance strong ethical convictions with an equally strong appreciation for work that tests the limits of taste, taboo, and permissibility.