Artistic Representations of Suffering

Mark Celinscak is the Louis and Frances Blumkin Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is a historian of twentieth century Britain and Europe, specializing in war, Holocaust and genocide studies. He is the author of Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp. Curtis Hutt is an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is the Founding Executive Director of the UNO Goldstein Center for Human Rights, He is the editor of Jewish Religious and Philosophical Ethics and the author of two books – John Dewey and Ethics of Historical Belief and The Sorrows of Mattidia.

Artistic Representations of Suffering takes readers on a journey that is painful and ethically complex. It is a book for readers who want to move beyond despair.

• List of FiguresPreface: Art and Suffering – Mark Celinscak and Curtis HuttI. Approaches to Art and Suffering1. Human Rights and Art - Hurst Hannum2. Art History and Human Suffering: Pasts, Pedagogies, and Possibilities – Adrian Duran3. Creative Interventions: Art against Trauma - Jen Webb, Jordan Williams, and Anthony Eaton4. A Life’s Work: John Dewey on Art and Education for Democracy – Curtis HuttII. Art and Suffering5. Suffering and its Defeat in Renaissance Art: Reading Titian and El Greco through Kierkegaard and Maimonides - Nehama Verbin6. Representing the Unseen: The Primacy of Visual Testimony in Official British War Art – Paul Gough7. Beyond Redemption: Käthe Kollwitz and the Tragedy of War - Jay Winter8. The Anguish of Liberation: War Artists and the Holocaust – Mark Celinscak9. The Bloody Divide 1947: Facing Trauma through Art - Mehnaz M. Afridi10. The Art of the Arpilleras - Marjorie Agosín11. Art and the (Ir)resolution of Suffering - David Tollerton12. Just Is After