Monday, January 31, 2011

Bryn Mawr talk: Jennifer Doyle

Bryn Mawr College's
Center for Visual Culture presents:

JENNIFER DOYLE
Associate Professor
Department of English, UC Riverside

Hard Cases:
Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art

Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Bryn Mawr College
Carpenter Library 21
7PM

Open to the Community

In this talk, Jennifer Doyle introduces the term "difficulty" into art criticism in order to make room for a conversation about emotion and the politics of intimacy in contemporary art. This work is from a forthcoming book, which looks at work by Linda Montano, Ron Athey, Carrie Mae Weems, James Luna and David Wojnarowicz.

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