UID:
almafu_9959677648502883
Format:
1 online resource (244 p.)
ISBN:
0822395630
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0-8223-5313-X
Series Statement:
e-Duke books scholarly collection
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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 Luiseño 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).
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-5302-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-299-53273-X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822395638
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