Janet Wolff is professor emerita in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester. She is the author of The Social Production of Art; Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art; Feminine Sentences: Essays on Women and Culture; Resident Alien: Feminist Cultural Criticism; and AngloModern: Painting and Modernity in Britain and the United States.

A salutary reminder of a fact often sensed but rarely articulated: the uncertain, the indirect, and the oblique are especially at home in our contemporary context of artistic creation and interpretation, and we would do well to investigate them for what they are in and of themselves, rather than seeing them merely as obstacles to be gotten beyond in pursuit of something more perceptually stable and, we too easily think, epistemologically worthy. -- Garry L. Hagberg CAA Reviews

• Acknowledgments Introduction: The Desire for Certainty-and the Timeliness of Doubt 1. Groundless Beauty: Feminism and the Aesthetics of Uncertainty 2. English Art and Principled Aesthetics 3. The Iconic and the Allusive: The Case for Beauty in Post-Holocaust Art 4. The Impolite Boarder: Kitaj's "Diasporist" Art and Its Critical Response 5. "Degenerate Art" in Britain: Refugees, Internees and Visual Culture 6. The Sociological Image Afterword: Aesthetics and Ethics in the Twenty-first Century Notes Index

Janet Wolff is professor emerita in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester. She is the author of The Social Production of Art; Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art; Feminine Sentences: Essays on Women and Culture; Resident Alien: Feminist Cultural Criticism; and AngloModern: Painting and Modernity in Britain and the United States.

A salutary reminder of a fact often sensed but rarely articulated: the uncertain, the indirect, and the oblique are especially at home in our contemporary context of artistic creation and interpretation, and we would do well to investigate them for what they are in and of themselves, rather than seeing them merely as obstacles to be gotten beyond in pursuit of something more perceptually stable and, we too easily think, epistemologically worthy. -- Garry L. Hagberg CAA Reviews

• Acknowledgments Introduction: The Desire for Certainty-and the Timeliness of Doubt 1. Groundless Beauty: Feminism and the Aesthetics of Uncertainty 2. English Art and Principled Aesthetics 3. The Iconic and the Allusive: The Case for Beauty in Post-Holocaust Art 4. The Impolite Boarder: Kitaj's "Diasporist" Art and Its Critical Response 5. "Degenerate Art" in Britain: Refugees, Internees and Visual Culture 6. The Sociological Image Afterword: Aesthetics and Ethics in the Twenty-first Century Notes Index

Janet Wolff is professor emerita in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester. She is the author of The Social Production of Art; Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art; Feminine Sentences: Essays on Women and Culture; Resident Alien: Feminist Cultural Criticism; and AngloModern: Painting and Modernity in Britain and the United States.

A salutary reminder of a fact often sensed but rarely articulated: the uncertain, the indirect, and the oblique are especially at home in our contemporary context of artistic creation and interpretation, and we would do well to investigate them for what they are in and of themselves, rather than seeing them merely as obstacles to be gotten beyond in pursuit of something more perceptually stable and, we too easily think, epistemologically worthy. -- Garry L. Hagberg CAA Reviews

• Acknowledgments Introduction: The Desire for Certainty-and the Timeliness of Doubt 1. Groundless Beauty: Feminism and the Aesthetics of Uncertainty 2. English Art and Principled Aesthetics 3. The Iconic and the Allusive: The Case for Beauty in Post-Holocaust Art 4. The Impolite Boarder: Kitaj's "Diasporist" Art and Its Critical Response 5. "Degenerate Art" in Britain: Refugees, Internees and Visual Culture 6. The Sociological Image Afterword: Aesthetics and Ethics in the Twenty-first Century Notes Index