T his book is not for the faint hearted. The challenge is not amatter of style. Given my previous experience reading some of the authors in this anthology, I was delighted to find most of the 11 chapters were easily accessible. The challenge lies in the content. Set in a binary position to dominant forms of art education, contributors explore examples of art and popular visual culture whose prime affect is disgust, horror, and, at best, deep ambivalence. According to the editors, their aim is to “offer a pedagogy of provocation, around the concepts of the unknown, unfixed, anxious, uncertain, or absent subject, through embodied experiences and non-representational practices” (p. 11). Many kinds of excess are explored: the open bodywith all its abject and disgusting fluids; dreaded realities like pain and death; taboo practices such as

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他的书不适合胆小者。挑战不在于风格。鉴于我以前阅读该文集的一些作者的经验，我很高兴发现11章中的大多数都易于访问。挑战在于内容。对于主要的形式艺术教育而言，贡献者处于二元地位，他们探索了艺术和流行的视觉文化的例子，其主要影响是令人厌恶，恐怖，充其量是至深的矛盾情绪。据编辑们说，他们的目的是“通过具体的经验和非代表性的实践，围绕未知，不确定，焦虑，不确定或缺席的主题进行挑衅教育”（第11页）。探索了许多过量的物质：开放的身体充满所有令人厌恶的液体。痛苦和死亡等可怕的现实；禁忌习俗如