Outrage: Art, Controversy, and Society

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Controversy, Art, and Power....Pages 19-46
A Primal Controversy: On the Destruction and Protection of Art in Western Culture....Pages 47-65
Recruiting and Nominating Participants for the Brooklyn Museum Controversy: The Contributions of New York City Print Journalists....Pages 66-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Pieces from the Past: Contestation around Francoist Monuments in Modern-Day Spain....Pages 101-128
The Nation’s Cathedral: Public Art and Competing Memories in Post-Communist Romania....Pages 129-143
Citizenship and Public Art: Chicago’s Millennium Park....Pages 144-171
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Underexposed: The Controversial Censorship of Photographs of US War Dead....Pages 175-206
Testimony and Theater: The Controversy of Truth-Telling in Post-Apartheid South Africa and Post-Conflict Northern Ireland....Pages 207-222
Tracing Controversy in East German Film....Pages 223-235
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Remediating Arts Controversy in the Nineteenth Century....Pages 239-261
“Giacinto Scelsi c’est moi!”....Pages 262-277
Beauty and Danger: The Aestheticization of Information in Contemporary Art....Pages 278-290
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
Art Fights: The Persistence of Controversy in Modern Aesthetics....Pages 293-302
The End of the Modern Art Controversy and the Many Controversies over Art....Pages 303-316
Back Matter....Pages 317-331