Hold it against me : difficulty and emotion in contemporary art / Jennifer Doyle.

Author/creator Doyle, Jennifer
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham ; London : Duke University Press, 2013.
Descriptionxxiii, 203 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Subjects
Emotions in art.
Art, Modern--21st century. --Psychological aspects.
Art, Modern--21st century. --Themes, motives.
Art criticism.

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).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [147]-192) and index.
LCCN 2012044742
ISBN9780822353027 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822353024 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822353133 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN082235313X (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks NX650 .E46 D698 2013 ✔ Available Place Hold