Hold It Against Me - 9780822353133

Description: Hold It Against Me Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art Author(s): Jennifer Doyle Format: Paperback Publisher: Duke University Press, United States Imprint: Duke University Press ISBN-13: 9780822353133, 978-0822353133 Synopsis In Hold 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 Shvarts, 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 deploy the complexity of emotion to measure the weight of history, and to deepen our sense of where and how politics happens in contemporary art. Doyle explores ideologies of emotion and how emotion circulates in and around art. Throughout, she gives readers welcoming points of entry into artworks that they may at first find off-putting or confrontational. Doyle offers new insight into how the discourse of controversy serves to shut down discussion about this side of contemporary art practice, and counters with a critical language that allows the reader to accept emotional intensity in order to learn from it.

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Location: Aldershot

End Time: 2025-01-22T11:00:14.000Z

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