Artistic expression frequently engages with the question of suffering. In so doing, it confronts the gravity and complexity of the human condition. This volume

An unflinching, illuminating look at three U.S. artists and their performances of suffering

The presentation of bodies in pain has been a major concern in Western art since the time of the Greeks. The Christian tradition is closely entwined with such t

A study of the representation of pain and suffering in Western art and photography, from Christian martyrs to the Holocaust. It asks how it is that art can warn