Outrage: Art, Controversy, and Society

1. Introduction
Richard Howells, Andreea Deciu Ritivoi, Judith Schachter

Part I. Major Themes, Premises, and Positions

2. Controversy, Art, and Power
Richard Howells

3. A Primal Controversy: On the Destruction and Protection of Art in Western Culture
Lowry Burgess

4. Recruiting and Nominating Participants for the Brooklyn Museum Controversy: The Contributions of New York City Print Journalists
Peter A. Cramer

Part II. Representing a Contested Past

5. Pieces from the Past: Contestation around Francoist Monuments in Modern-Day Spain
Carrie L. Ruiz

6. The Nation’s Cathedral: Public Art and Competing Memories in Post-Communist Romania
Andreea Deciu Ritivoi

7. Citizenship and Public Art: Chicago’s Millennium Park
Fred Evans

Part III. Censoring and Subverting: The Arts and Politics

8. Underexposed: The Controversial Censorship of Photographs of US War Dead
Jasmine Alinder

9. Testimony and Theater: The Controversy of Truth-Telling in Post-Apartheid South Africa and Post-Conflict Northern Ireland
Jennifer Keating-Miller

10. Tracing Controversy in East German Film
Stephen Brockmann

Part IV. The Past and the Future of Arts Controversies

11. Remediating Arts Controversy in the Nineteenth Century
Jon Klancher

12. “Giacinto Scelsi c’est moi!”
Franco Sciannameo

13. Beauty and Danger: The Aestheticization of Information in Contemporary Art
Melissa Ragona

Part V. The Future of Controversies

14. Art Fights: The Persistence of Controversy in Modern Aesthetics
Manu Samriti Chander

15. The End of the Modern Art Controversy and the Many Controversies over Art
Albrecht Funk

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Arts, Sociology of Culture, Regional and Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Fine Arts