Hold It Against Me Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art

Name: Hold It Against Me Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art
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ISBN: 9780822353133

ISBN-10: 082235313X

ISBN-13: 9780822353133

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jennifer Doyle

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InHold It Against Me, Jennifer Doyle explores the relationship between difficulty and emotion in contemporary art, treating emotion as an artist's medium. She encourages readers to examine the ways in which works of art challenge how we experience not only the artist's feelings, but our own. Discussing performance art, painting, and photography, Doyle provides new perspectives on artists including Ron Athey, Aliza Schvarts, Thomas Eakins, James Luna, Carrie Mae Weems, and David Wojnarowicz. Confronting the challenge of writing about difficult works of art, she shows how these artists work with feelings as a means to question our assumptions about identity, intimacy, and expression. They…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 4/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



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: AIiza Shvarts, Untitled (2008)


Theater of Cruelty: Thomas Eakins, The Gross Clinic (1875)


Touchy Subject: Ron Athey, Incorruptible Flesh: Dissociative Sparkle (2006)



Thinking Feeling: Criticism and Emotion


What Happened to Feeling?


The Difficulty of Sentimentality: Franko B's I Miss You! (2003)


The Strange Theatricality of Tears: Nao Bustamante's Neapolitan (2009)


Relational Aesthetics and Affective Labor



Feeling Overdetermined: Identity, Emotion, and History


The Difficulty of Identity


James Luna's The History of the Luiseï¿½o People (Christmas, La Jolla Reservation 1990) (1990-1996, 2009)


Difficulty and Ideologies of Emotion


Carrie Mae Weems's From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried (1995-1996)


Conclusion: "History Keeps Me Awake"


David Wojnarowicz's Untitled (Hujar Dead) (1988-1989)


Notes


Bibliography


Index