BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260806T190545EDT-19773Ds0kI@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260806T230545Z DESCRIPTION:The Department of Art History and Communication\nStudies welcom es Jennifer Doyle\, Professor\, University\nof California at Riverside\, t o speak at our annual lecture series\n(follow this link for a complete lis t of this year's speakers).\nTitle: 'Critical Limits: On Difficulty and\nE motion in Contemporary Art'\nAbstract: This talk imports the term\n'diffic ulty' from poetics to look at contemporary art often\nidentified as contro versial. This is new work from a forthcoming\nDuke University Press book w hich offers a critical model sensitive\nto the complexity of emotion as it unfolds around certain art works\n- it aims to shift conversation away fr om terms like 'controversy'\nin order to open up space for arguing the mea ning and importance of\nthose artworks which challenge both audiences and the critical\napparatus.\nBiography: Jennifer Doyle teaches American\nlite rature\, gender studies\, and visual studies. In her book Sex\nObjects: Ar t and the Dialectics of Desire (Minnesota\, 2006)\,\nDoyle shows how the d eclaration that a work of art is “about sex”\nreveals surprisingly little about the work\, the artist\, or the\nspectator. Sex Objects moves readers beyond debates about\npornography and censorship to show that sex in art is as diverse as\nsex in everyday life: exciting\, ordinary\, emotional\, traumatic\,\nembarrassing\, funny\, even profoundly boring. In chapters on the\n“boring parts” of Moby Dick\, the scandals that dogged the\npainter Thomas Eakins\, the role of women in Andy Warhol's Factory\nfilms\, “bad s ex” and Tracey Emin's crudely evocative line drawings\,\nand L.A. artist V aginal Davis's pornographic parodies of Vanessa\nBeecroft's performances\, Doyle challenges simplistic readings of\nsexualized art and instead inves tigates what such works can tell us\nabout the nature of desire. Sex Objec ts was a finalist for a Lambda\nLiterary Award for Writing on Art and Cult ure\, and received\nhonorable mention for the Alan Bray Memorial Book Priz e.\n\nDoyle is co-editor of a special issue of the feminist journal\nSigns (Spring 2006) on new feminist theories of visual\nculture\, and is co-edi tor of Pop Out: Queer Warhol (Duke\,\n1996)\, the first book of its kind o f consider the relationship\nbetween Warhol's sexuality and his work. Her article\, 'Jo March's\nLove Poems\,' on lesbian desire and reading in Litt le\nWomen\, appears in a special issue of Nineteenth-Century\nLiterature ( June 2006) on lesbian aesthetics.\n\nShe is currently at work on two book projects. “Critical\nDifficulties” explores the relationship between the c ultural\npolitics of emotion and the limits of art criticism. “Uncoupled” \nexplores forms of intimacy that take shape outside of\, or in a\ncritica l relationship to the romantic couple and the domestic norm.\nJennifer Doy le was awarded a 2007-2008 Leverhulme Visiting\nFellowship in Visual Cultu re at Goldsmiths College\, University of\nLondon.\nThis lecture has been c o-sponsored with the English Department\nat 91˿Ƶ.\n DTSTART:20110124T170000Z DTEND:20110124T170000Z LOCATION:Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue Sherbrooke Ouest SUMMARY:AHCS Speaker Series: Jennifer Doyle 'Critical Limits: On Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art' URL:/channels/event/ahcs-speaker-series-jennifer-doyle -critical-limits-difficulty-and-emotion-contemporary-art-170112 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR