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xxiii, 203 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-192) and index. |
| Contents |
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 (2008) -- Theater of cruelty: Thomas Eakins, The gross clinic (1875) -- Touchy subject: Ron Athey, Incorruptible flesh: dissociative sparkle (2006) -- Thinking feeling: criticism and emotion -- What happened to feeling? -- The difficulty of sentimentality: Franko B's I miss you! (2003) -- The strange theatricality of tears: Nao Bustamante's Neapolitan (2009) -- Relational aesthetics and affective labor -- Feeling overdetermined: identity, emotion, and history -- The difficulty of identity -- James Luna's The history of the Luiseņo people (Christmas, La Jolla Reservation 1990) (1990-1996, 2009) -- Difficulty and ideologies of emotion -- Carrie Mae Weems's From here I saw what happened and I cried (1995-1996) -- Conclusion: "History keeps me awake" -- David Wojnarowicz's Untitled (Hujar Dead) (1988-1989). |
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Emotions in art.
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Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Psychological aspects.
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Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Themes, motives.
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Art criticism.
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Art criticism. (OCoLC)fst00815492
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Art, Modern -- Psychological aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00816655
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Art, Modern -- Themes, motives.
(OCoLC)fst00816663
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Emotions in art. (OCoLC)fst00908862
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| Chronological Term |
2000 - 2099
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| ISBN |
9780822353133 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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082235313X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780822353027 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0822353024 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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