| Opie, Catherine, Nat Trotman, and Russell Ferguson. Catherine Opie: American Photographer. New York, N.Y: Guggenheim Museum, 2008. |
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| Misrach, Richard, and Susan Sontag. Violent Legacies: Three Cantos. New York: Aperture, 1992. |
Misrach: "But I've come to believe that beauty can be a very powerful conveyor of difficult ideas. It engages people when they might otherwise look away. Recent theory has been critical of the distancing effect of artistic expression - 'create solutions, not art.' But the impact of art may be more complex and far-reaching than theory is capable of assessing. To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness, and of sounding alarms. The beauty of formal representation both carries an affirmation of life and subversively brings us face to face with news from our besieged world." (90)
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