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Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Doyle Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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
