Abject Art
Author: Jack Ben-Levi
Publisher: Whitney Museum of American Art
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13:
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Abject Visions
Author: Rina Arya
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780719096280
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn impressive list of authors examine how abjection can be discussed in relation to a host of different subjects, including marginality and gender.
Abject Performances
Author: Leticia Alvarado
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2018-04-19
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 0822371936
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Abject Performances Leticia Alvarado draws out the irreverent, disruptive aesthetic strategies used by Latino artists and cultural producers who shun standards of respectability that are typically used to conjure concrete minority identities. In place of works imbued with pride, redemption, or celebration, artists such as Ana Mendieta, Nao Bustamante, and the Chicano art collective known as Asco employ negative affects—shame, disgust, and unbelonging—to capture experiences that lie at the edge of the mainstream, inspirational Latino-centered social justice struggles. Drawing from a diverse expressive archive that ranges from performance art to performative testimonies of personal faith-based subjection, Alvarado illuminates modes of community formation and social critique defined by a refusal of identitarian coherence that nonetheless coalesce into Latino affiliation and possibility.
Powers of Horror
Author: Julia Kristeva
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2024-03-26
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0231561415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the nature of attitudes toward repulsive subjects and examines the function of these topics in the writings of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and other authors. Kristeva identifies the abject with the eruption of the real and the presence of death. She explores how art and religion each offer ways of purifying the abject, arguing that amid abjection, boundaries between subject and object break down.
Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art
Author: Yvonne Owens
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-10-29
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1350190500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHans Baldung Grien, the most famous apprentice and close friend of German artist Albrecht Dürer, was known for his unique and highly eroticised images of witches. In paintings and woodcut prints, he gave powerful visual expression to late medieval tropes and stereotypes, such as the poison maiden, venomous virgin, the Fall of Man, 'death and the maiden' and other motifs and eschatological themes, which mingled abject and erotic qualities in the female body. Yvonne Owens reads these images against the humanist intellectual milieu of Renaissance Germany, showing how classical and medieval medicine and natural philosophy interpreted female anatomy as toxic, defective and dangerously beguiling. She reveals how Hans Baldung exploited this radical polarity to create moralising and titillating portrayals of how monstrous female sexuality victimised men and brought them low. Furthermore, these images issued from-and contributed to-the contemporary understanding of witchcraft as a heresy that stemmed from natural 'feminine defect,' a concept derived from Aristotle. Offering new and provocative interpretations of Hans Baldung's iconic witchcraft imagery, this book is essential reading for historians of art, culture and gender relations in the late medieval and early modern periods.
Abject Expressionism
Author: Ron English
Publisher: Last Gasp
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780867196894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive survey covering 20 years of English's career - from staged photography to neo-Surrealist oil paintings to street art - this is an important look at the work of an artist who has been at the forefront of activist art movements in photography, painting and underground music. Ron English has been called the Robin Hood of Madison Avenue for his seminal work in billboard subvertising and is widely considered to be a founding member of the Culture Jamming movement.' #NAME?'
Disgust
Author: Winfried Menninghaus
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 483
ISBN-13: 0791486311
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDisgust (Ekel, dégoût) is a state of high alert. It acutely says "no" to a variety of phenomena that seemingly threaten the integrity of the self, if not its very existence. A counterpart to the feelings of appetite, desire, and love, it allows at the same time for an acting out of hidden impulses and libidinal drives. In Disgust, Winfried Menninghaus provides a comprehensive account of the significance of this forceful emotion in philosophy, aesthetics, literature, the arts, psychoanalysis, and theory of culture from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics addressed include the role of disgust as both a cognitive and moral organon in Kant and Nietzsche; the history of the imagination of the rotting corpse; the counter-cathexis of the disgusting in Romantic poetics and its modernist appeal ever since; the affinities of disgust and laughter and the analogies of vomiting and writing; the foundation of Freudian psychoanalysis in a theory of disgusting pleasures and practices; the association of disgusting "otherness" with truth and the trans-symbolic "real" in Bataille, Sartre, and Kristeva; Kafka's self-representation as an "Angel" of disgusting smells and acts, concealed in a writerly stance of uncompromising "purity"; and recent debates on "Abject Art."
The Picture of Abjection
Author: Tina Chanter
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0253349176
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In The Picture of Abjection, Tina Chanter addresses a fundamental problem in film theory by negotiating a middle path between "gaze theory" approaches to film and spectator studies or cultural theory approaches that emphasize the position of the viewer. Chanter argues that abjection is the unthought ground of fetishistic theories. By mobilizing a theory of abjection, the book shows how the appeal to phallic, fetishistic theories continues to deify the hegemonic categories of race, class, sexuality, and gender, as if they stood as self-evident." -- Publisher.
Critical Terms for Art History, Second Edition
Author: Robert S. Nelson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2003-04
Total Pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9780226571669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe words used to describe and analyse art are the subject of this examination of the new scope of art history and the terms used by those involved in visual and pictorial theory.
L.A. Raw
Author: Michael Duncan
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780983587026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUntil recently, the figurative artists who dominated the Los Angeles art scene of the 1940s and 50s had largely been written out of art history. L.A. Raw is an attempt to right that wrong. Bringing together works by 41 artists in a variety of media, it traces a lineage that connects postwar figurative expressionism to the 1960s and 70s investigations of politics, gender and ethnicity in art. The featured artists include John Altoon, Wallace Berman, William Brice, Hans Burckhardt, Chris Burden, Cameron, Judy Chicago, Connor Everts, Llyn Foulkes, Charles Garabedian, David Hammonds, Robert Heinecken, John Paul Jones, Kim Jones, Ed and Nancy Kienholz, Rico Lebrun, Paul McCarthy, Arnold Mesches, Betye Saar, Ben Sakoguchi, Barbara Smith, James Strombotne, Jan Stussy, Edward Teske, Joyce Treiman, Howard Warshaw, June Wayne, Charles White and Jack Zajac.
