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The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
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  • Maggie Nelson
    Maggie Nelson
    / The Red Parts, Bluets, and The Art of Cruelty

    Her next book, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (2011), examined violence and cruelty through essays on performance art, pornography, horror movies, and the works of writers and artists such as Plath, the painter Francis Bacon, and the photographer Diane Arbus.

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    Her next book, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (2011), examined violence and cruelty through essays on performance art, pornography, horror movies, and the works of writers and artists such as Plath, the painter Francis Bacon, and the photographer Diane Arbus.

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