Doyle Hold It Against Me

Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9563-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Doyle, Jennifer

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xxi

I. Introducing Difficulty 1

Hard Feelings 5

Patrolling the Border between Art and Politics 9

Vocabulary Shift: From Controversy to Difficulty 15

Difficulty's Audience 21

2. Three Case Studies in Difficulty and the Problem of Affect 28

A Blank: Aliza Shvarts, Untitled (2008) 28

Theater of Cruelty: Thomas Eakins, The Gross Clinic (1875) 39

Touchy Subjects: Ron Athey, Incorruptible Flesh: Dissociative Sparkle (2006) 49

3. Thinking Feeling: Criticism and Emotion 69

What Happened to Feeling? 69

The Difficulty of Sentimentality: Franko B's I Miss You! (2003) 73

The Strange Theatricality of Tears: Nao Bustamante's Neapolitan (2009) 83

Relational Aesthetics and Affective Labor 89

4. Feeling Overdetermined: Identity, Emotion, and History 94

The Difficulty of Identity 94

James Luna's The History of the Luiseño People (Christmas, La Jolla Reservation 1990) (1990–1996, 2009) 98

Difficulty and Ideologies of Emotion 106

Carrie Mae Weems's From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried (1995–1996) 112

Conclusion 126

David Wojnarowicz's Untitled (Hujar Dead) (1988–1989) 126

Notes 147

Bibliography 183

Index 193

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer Doyle is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire and co-editor of Pop Out: Queer Warhol, also published by Duke University Press.