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    Maggie Nelson: The Art of Cruelty-A Reckoning

    Modern and post-modern art have gone up to a level of transgressive and theoretical border play that leave many viewers bewildered or repelled...

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    By Michael Silverblatt • Sep 22, 2011 • 29m Listen

    : A Reckoning

    (W. W. Norton & Company)

    Modern and post-modern art have gone up to a level of transgressive and theoretical border play that leave many viewers bewildered or repelled. Critic Maggie Nelson guides us into the wide spectrum of response to this difficult, often uncomfortable, aesthetic realm.

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      Michael Silverblatt

      host, 'Bookworm'

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