Art, Excess, and Education: Historical and Discursive Contexts

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This book concentrates on the deep historical, political, and institutional relationships between art, education, and excess. Going beyond field specific discourses of art history, art criticism, philosophy, and aesthetics, it explores how the concept of excess has been important and enduring from antiquity through contemporary art, and from early film through the newer interactive media. Examples considered throughout the book focus on disgust, grandiosity, sex, violence, horror, disfigurement, endurance, shock, abundance, and emptiness, and frames them all within an educational context. Together they provide theories and classificatory systems, historical and political interpretations of art and excess, examples of popular culture, and suggestions for the future of educational practice. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi An Introduction to Excess in Art and Education: Discursive Explorations (Kevin Tavin, Mira Kallio-Tavin, Max Ryynänen)....Pages 1-18 Front Matter ....Pages 19-19 A Taxonomy of Disgust in Art (Noël Carroll, Filippo Contesi)....Pages 21-38 Painting History, Manufacturing Excess: How the Artistic Configures the Political (Paco Barragán)....Pages 39-53 The Excessive Aesthetics of Tehching Hsieh: Art as A Life (jan jagodzinski)....Pages 55-75 Front Matter ....Pages 77-77 Killing Them Softly: Nonhuman Animal Relationships and Limitations of Ethics (Mira Kallio-Tavin)....Pages 79-91 Loss Is More: Art as Phantom Limb Sensation (Raphael Vella)....Pages 93-109 Extravagant Bodies: Abjection in Art, Visual Culture and the Classroom (Susan B. Livingston)....Pages 111-128 Pedagogical Sacrifices: On the Educational Excess of John Duncan’s Darkness (Juuso Tervo)....Pages 129-144 Front Matter ....Pages 145-145 Hybrid Creatures and Monstrous Reproduction: The Multifunctional Grotesque in Alien: Resurrection (Henriikka Huunan-Seppälä)....Pages 147-160 Anatomy of Shock: What Can We Learn from the Virgin-Whore Church? (Annamari Vänskä)....Pages 161-182 Sending Chills Up My Spine: Somatic Film and the Care of the Self (Max Ryynänen)....Pages 183-197 Back Matter ....Pages 199-207