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Hold it against me: difficulty and emotion in contemporary art

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In this text, 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 Schvart, Thomas Eakins, James Luna, Carrie Mae Weems, and David Wojnarowicz.

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Duke University Press
0822395630 / 9780822395638
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
709.051
25/04/2013
English
193 pages
Copy: 100%; print: 100%
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