Hold it against me : difficulty and emotion in contemporary art /
Jennifer Doyle.
- Durham Duke University Press 2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Luiseņo 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).
Examining the relationship between emotional intensity and difficulty in works of avant-garde art, Jennifer Doyle seeks to develop a critical language for understanding affectively charged contemporary art.
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Emotions in art. Art, Modern--Psychological aspects--21st century. Art, Modern--Themes, motives--21st century. Art criticism.