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Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art
Jennifer Doyle
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Description for Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art
Paperback. In Hold It Against Me, Jennifer Doyle explores the relationship between difficulty and emotion in contemporary art, treating emotion as an artist's medium. Num Pages: 232 pages, 45 illustrations, including 17 in colour. BIC Classification: ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
379g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822353133
SKU
V9780822353133
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About Jennifer Doyle
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.
Reviews for Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art
“Jennifer Doyle’s Hold It Against Me offers us a powerful and challenging new voice. The difficulty she describes emerges in work that turns to face us. . . .Doyle has opened up a critical and much needed space for this work and these experiences. She demands that we consider the political and historical stakes in ourselves, to embrace what is ... Read more