Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art

by Jennifer Doyle

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082235313X
• ISBN13: 9780822353133
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"