Doyle, Jennifer, <br/><br/>
Hold it against me :  difficulty and emotion in contemporary art / 
Jennifer Doyle. 
 - Durham  London :  Duke University Press,  2013. 
 - 1 online resource (xxiii, 203 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :  ill. (some col.) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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 -- Theater of cruelty: Thomas Eakins, the gross clinic -- Touchy subject: Ron Athey, incorruptible flesh: dissociative sparkle -- Thinking feeling: criticism and emotion -- What happened to feeling? -- The difficulty of sentimentality: Franko B's I miss you! -- The strange theatricality of tears: nao Bustamante's Neapolitan -- Relational aesthetics and affective labor -- Feeling overdetermined: identity, emotion, and history -- The difficulty of identity -- James Luna's the history of the Luiseno people (Christmas, La Jolla Reservation). -- Difficulty and ideologies of emotion. -- Carrie Mae Weems's From here I saw what happened and I cried. -- David Wojnarowicz's Untitled (Hujar Dead). 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780822395638(ebook) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Emotions in art.<br/>Art, Modern--Psychological aspects.--21st century<br/>Art, Modern--Themes, motives.--21st century<br/>Art criticism.