The experience of the body in pain (anatomy) and the aesthetic representation of pain (poetics) is the theme explored in this issue of Double Dialogues.
The essays are testament to the diverse ways in which pain and suffering form a large part of the life lived, the art that seeks to express that life and the extent to which men and women avoid and embrace the meaning it might hold.
The essays examine art as a kind of ‘healing’ agent, in that it confronts what is unbearable and turns it into art, takes on many forms and gives rise to new questions.