The hysterical material / organized by Geof Oppenheimer with Anne Leonard ; with essays by Mieke Bal, Anita Chari, Ankhi Mukherjee and Geof Oppenheimer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oppenheimer, Geof, editor, writer of supplemental textual content.

Bal, Mieke, 1946- writer of supplemental textual content.

Mukherjee, Ankhi, writer of supplemental textual content.

Chari, Anita Sridhar, writer of supplemental textual content.

David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, organizer, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917--Exhibitions.

Rodin, Auguste.

Nauman, Bruce, 1941---Exhibitions.

Nauman, Bruce.

Nauman, Bruce, 1941-.

Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917.

Emotions in art--Exhibitions.

Emotions in art.

Sculpture--Themes, motives--Exhibitions.

Sculpture.

Sculpture--Themes, motives.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

108 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The Smart Museum of Art and Soberscove Press, 2017.

Summary:

Published in relation to an exhibition of the same name at the Smart Museum of Art at The University of Chicago, The Hysterical Material is a book about feelings and emotion. Specifically, it is about how these twin registers are represented and produced in both the materiality of the body and in the objects we call art.00Beginning with the premise that hysteria can be best understood phenomenologically rather than in pathological terms, this publication considers the possibilities of the body as an emotional instrument not always understood by the rational mind. This potential is investigated in the work of two leading artists of Western art history, Auguste Rodin (1840?1917) and Bruce Nauman (born 1941). The body is something used and depicted in the work of both of these artists; however, they employ it in radically different ways. While Rodin was a master of conflating representation and material, Nauman uses figurative representation to plumb the depths of the psychological body. Calling attention to the artists? mutual artistic concerns, this publication explores the multiple possibilities of a bodily and affective engagement with art.00Exhibition: Smart Museum of Art at The University of Chicago, USA (14.09.-17.12.2017).

Contents:

Like us all / by Geof Oppenheimer

Material matters / by Mieke Bal

Exhibition images

Exhibition checklist

The hysterical material / by Ankhi Mukherjee

Hysterical phenomenologies / by Anita Chari.

Notes:

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Hysterical Material, organized by Geof Oppenheimer with Anne Leonard at the Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, and presented September 14-December 17."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781940190181

1940190185

OCLC:

990248472