Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art

In Hold It Against Me, Jennifer Doyle explores the relationship between difficulty and emotion in contemporary art,...
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Author: Jennifer Doyle
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Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art by Doyle, Jennifer

Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art

Dhs. 230.00

Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art

Dhs. 230.00
Author: Jennifer Doyle
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.



Author: Jennifer Doyle
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 04/01/2013
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.15h x 6.21w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780822353133


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/15/2013
Library Journal 05/01/2013

About the Author

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.


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