Professor Susan Best: 2 books
Visualizing Feeling
Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
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...
Reparative Aesthetics
Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
By offering a new way of thinking about the role of politically engaged art, Susan Best opens up a new aesthetic field: reparative aesthetics. The book identifies an innovative aesthetic on the part of women photographers from the southern hemisphere, who against the dominant modes of criticality...