Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art : Abjection, Revolt, and Objecthood / Keren Moscovitch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moscovitch, Keren, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Modern--Themes, motives.

Art, Modern.

Intimacy (Psychology) in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2023.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art focuses on practices that operate at the edges of sexuality and its socially sanctioned expressions. Using psychoanalysis and object-oriented feminism, Keren Moscovitch focuses on the work of several contemporary, provocative artists to initiate a dialogue on the role of intimacy in challenging and reimagining ideology. Moscovitch suggests that intimacy has played an under-appreciated role in the shifting of social and political consciousness. She explores the work of Leigh Ledare, Genesis P-Orridge, Ellen Jong, Barbara DeGenevieve, Joseph Maida and Lorraine O'Grady, who, through their radical practices, engage in such consciousness shifting in elegant, surprising, and provocative ways. Guided by the feminist psychoanalytic canon of Julia Kristeva throughout, as well as being informed by the philosophy of Luce Irigaray and the critical theory of Judith Butler, Moscovitch situates these artists in the emerging lineage of feminist new materialism. She argues that the instability of intimacy leads to radical and performative objecthood in their work that acts as a powerful expression of revolt. Through this line of argumentation, Moscovitch joins a growing group of philosophers exploring object-oriented theories and practices as a new language for a new era. In this era, the hegemony of subjectivity has been toppled, and a new world of human ontology is built creatively, expressively and in the spirit of revolt.

Contents:

List of FiguresAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Intimacy Revolts Part I: Leigh Ledare: The Subject on Trial 1. Imagining Intimacy 2. A Poetics of Abjection Part II: Genesis P-Orridge: Radical Sensibility 3. Ritual and Revolt Part III: Ellen Jong: The Object in Revolt 4. Sex and the Symbolic 5. Object Oriented Intimacy Part IV: The Politics of Subjects and Objects 6. Postcolonial Intimacy 7. Subjectivity Reclaimed, Reoriented Coda: Being is heard in the intimate Notes Bibliography Index

Other Format:

Print version: Moscovitch, Keren Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art

ISBN:

9781350298217

1350298212

1-350-29819-0

OCLC:

1381108547