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Hold it against me : difficulty and emotion in contemporary art / Jennifer Doyle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doyle, Jennifer, author.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emotions in art.
- Art, Modern--21st century--Psychological aspects.
- Art, Modern.
- Art, Modern--21st century--Themes, motives.
- Art criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (244 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham London : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examining the relationship between emotional intensity and difficulty in works of avant-garde art, Jennifer Doyle seeks to develop a critical language for understanding affectively charged contemporary art.
- Contents:
- Introducing difficulty
- Hard feelings
- Patrolling the border between art and politics
- Vocabulary shift: from controversy to difficulty
- Difficulty's audience
- Three case studies in difficulty and the problem of affect
- A blank: Aliza Shvarts, untitled
- Theater of cruelty: Thomas Eakins, the gross clinic
- Touchy subject: Ron Athey, incorruptible flesh: dissociative sparkle
- Thinking feeling: criticism and emotion
- What happened to feeling?
- The difficulty of sentimentality: Franko B's I miss you!
- The strange theatricality of tears: nao Bustamante's Neapolitan
- Relational aesthetics and affective labor
- Feeling overdetermined: identity, emotion, and history
- The difficulty of identity
- James Luna's the history of the Luiseño people (Christmas, La Jolla Reservation).
- Difficulty and ideologies of emotion.
- Carrie Mae Weems's From here I saw what happened and I cried.
- David Wojnarowicz's Untitled (Hujar Dead).
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822395638
- 0822395630
- 9780822353133
- 082235313X
- OCLC:
- 841050410
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