Reparative Aesthetics: Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography

By offering a new way of thinking about the role of politically engaged art, Susan Best opens up a new aesthetic field: reparative aesthetics. The book identifies an innovative aesthetic on the part of women photographers from the southern hemisphere, who against the dominant modes of criticality in political art, look at how cultural production can be reparative. The winner of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand best book award in 2017, Reparative Aesthetics contributes an entirely new theory to the interdisciplinary fields of aesthetics, affect studies, feminist theory, politics and photography. Conceptually innovative and fiercely original this book will move us beyond old political and cultural stalemates and into new terrain for analysis and reflection. Reparative Aesthetics: Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography 1st Edition is written by Susan Best and published by Bloomsbury Academic. ISBNs for Reparative Aesthetics are 9781472534583, 1472534581 and the print ISBNs are 9781472529787, 1472529782.