Visualizing Feeling

Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Art History, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Women&, General Art
Cover of the book Visualizing Feeling by Professor Susan Best, Bloomsbury Publishing
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Professor Susan Best ISBN: 9780857731319
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Publication: June 30, 2011
Imprint: I.B. Tauris Language: English
Author: Professor Susan Best
ISBN: 9780857731319
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication: June 30, 2011
Imprint: I.B. Tauris
Language: English

Is late modern art 'anti-aesthetic'? What does it mean to label a piece of art 'affectless'? These traditional characterisations of 1960s and 1970s art are radically challenged in this subversive art history. By introducing feeling to the analysis of this period, Susan Best acknowledges the radical and exploratory nature of art in late modernism. Her book focuses on four highly influential female artists - Eva Hesse, Lygia Clark, Ana Mendieta and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha - and it explores how their art transformed established avant-garde protocols by introducing an affective dimension. This aspect of their work, while often noted, has never before been analysed in detail. Visualizing Feeling also addresses a methodological blind spot in art history: the interpretation of feeling, emotion and affect. It demonstrates that the affective dimension, alongside other materials and methods of art, is part of the artistic means of production and innovation. This is the first thorough re-appraisal of aesthetic engagement with affect in post-1960s art.

The book also extends and enlarges the applications of psychoanalytic theory to art history. Susan Best draws on a rich array of psychologists and psychoanalytic thinkers such as: André Green, Sarah Kofman, Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, Ignacio Matte-Blanco, Silvan Tomkins and Daniel Stern. In addition, key aesthetic ideas and concepts are interrogated, including expressive theories of art, beauty and the sublime, and embodied responses to art.

By creatively re-evaluating late modern art, Susan Best offers a new way of thinking about subjectivity and feeling which acknowledges and celebrates the achievements of the feminine avant-garde.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Is late modern art 'anti-aesthetic'? What does it mean to label a piece of art 'affectless'? These traditional characterisations of 1960s and 1970s art are radically challenged in this subversive art history. By introducing feeling to the analysis of this period, Susan Best acknowledges the radical and exploratory nature of art in late modernism. Her book focuses on four highly influential female artists - Eva Hesse, Lygia Clark, Ana Mendieta and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha - and it explores how their art transformed established avant-garde protocols by introducing an affective dimension. This aspect of their work, while often noted, has never before been analysed in detail. Visualizing Feeling also addresses a methodological blind spot in art history: the interpretation of feeling, emotion and affect. It demonstrates that the affective dimension, alongside other materials and methods of art, is part of the artistic means of production and innovation. This is the first thorough re-appraisal of aesthetic engagement with affect in post-1960s art.

The book also extends and enlarges the applications of psychoanalytic theory to art history. Susan Best draws on a rich array of psychologists and psychoanalytic thinkers such as: André Green, Sarah Kofman, Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, Ignacio Matte-Blanco, Silvan Tomkins and Daniel Stern. In addition, key aesthetic ideas and concepts are interrogated, including expressive theories of art, beauty and the sublime, and embodied responses to art.

By creatively re-evaluating late modern art, Susan Best offers a new way of thinking about subjectivity and feeling which acknowledges and celebrates the achievements of the feminine avant-garde.

More books from Bloomsbury Publishing

Cover of the book The Chinese Civil War 1945–49 by Professor Susan Best
Cover of the book FDR v. The Constitution by Professor Susan Best
Cover of the book From Tongue to Text: A New Reading of Children's Poetry by Professor Susan Best
Cover of the book Neo-Tories by Professor Susan Best
Cover of the book Nine Ways to Cross a River by Professor Susan Best
Cover of the book Kerrigan in Copenhagen by Professor Susan Best
Cover of the book The Librettist of Venice by Professor Susan Best
Cover of the book Inheriting Walter Benjamin by Professor Susan Best
Cover of the book The Accidental Feminist by Professor Susan Best
Cover of the book SNAFU Situation Normal All F***ed Up by Professor Susan Best
Cover of the book The Logic of Autonomy by Professor Susan Best
Cover of the book There and Back Again by Professor Susan Best
Cover of the book Israel’s Lightning Strike by Professor Susan Best
Cover of the book The Stray Sod Country by Professor Susan Best
Cover of the book The American Civil War (2) by Professor Susan Best
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy