Aftershock: the ethics of contemporary transgressive art

"Accused by the tabloid press of setting out to 'shock', controversial artworks are vigorously defended by art critics who frequently downplay their disturbing emotional impact. This is the first book to subject contemporary art to a rigorous ethical exploration, arguing that, in favouring conceptual rather than emotional reactions, commentators actually fail to engage with the work they promote. Scrutinising notorious works by artists including Damien Hirst, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Richard Billingham, Marc Quinn, Sally Mann, Marcus Harvey, Hans Bellmer, Paul McCarthy, Tierney Gearon, and Tracey Emin, Aftershock insists on the importance of visceral, emotional and 'ethical' responses."--Page 4 de la couverture.

Introduction : -- The Incompatibility of Aesthetics and Contemporary Art -- Transgression : The War Aginst Disinterestedness -- The Ethics of Transgressive Art -- Everybody Hates a Tourist : -- The Ethical Analysis of Contemporary Art -- Disinterestedness and Cultural Tourism -- The Ethical Evaluation of Art : Autonomism versus Moralism -- A Difficult Case : Marc Quinn and Alison Lapper -- Transgressive Art Meets the Autonomist-Moralist Model -- Quinn and Lapper Revisited : A Contextualist Analysis -- Conclusion -- Carte Blanche : -- Marcus Harvey's Myra -- Preliminary Approaches to the Ethical Analysis of Myra -- 'Suffer Little Children' : The Facts of the Case -- Myra : Portrait of a Serial Killer -- Postmodernism and the Absence of the Referent Thesis -- Contextualist Ethical Analysis of Myra -- Myra and Merited Response Theory -- Conclusion -- Atrocity Exhibition : -- Aesthetic Defences of the Work of Jake and Dinos Chapman -- The Canonic Defence and the Chapman's Disasters of War -- The Transgressive Defence of Transgressive Art -- Hans Bellmer, Bataille and Authentic Transgression -- The Trivial Pursuit of Phychoanalysis -- Evaluation of Aesthetic Defences of Transgressive A…