Not only art represented the horror and the macabre since immemorial times, but it also has been a way of reflection about death, the most inscrutable mystery of life. The Abject Art, for instance, search for a lost and desired territory: the body without guilt.

demonstrate how the abject in art destabilizes the field of identity and ruptures social and political norms through disturbing confrontations with the viewer. Arya and Chare, along with their contributors, are suc-cessful in developing a critical schol-arly examination of the history of abject art. ¶ Yani Kong is a PhD candidate in Contemporary

Rina Arya and Nicholas Chare’s edited collection Abject Visions : Powers of Horror in Art and Visual Culture (2016) argues that the theory of the abject continues to be an enduring and productive site of thinking in contemporary visual culture.

Rina Arya and Nicholas Chare’s edit-ed collection Abject Visions : Powers of Horror in Art and Visual Culture (2016) argues that the theory of the abject continues to be an enduring and pro-ductive site of thinking in contem-porary visual culture.

This genuinely interdisciplinary collection includes important new essays that draw on the work of Georges Bataille, Judith Butler, Julia Kristeva and other key critical thinkers to provide innovative readings of works of art, film, theatre and literature.

Abject Visions: Powers of Horror in Art and Visual Culture. This major new volume brings together leading international scholars to debate the continuing importance and relevance of the concept of abjection for the interpretation of modern and contemporary culture.