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Introduction: On Freud's couch, dreaming of art -- Part I. The transvaluation of health -- Louise Bourgeois' art of hysteria -- Transmuting pain into joy with Precious liquids -- Lygia Clark on the space-body problem -- Part II. Love beyond pleasure -- (Re)visions of love: Margu…
This text focuses on four highly influential female artists - Eva Hesse, Lygia Clark, Ana Mendieta and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha - and explores how their art transformed established avant-garde protocols by introducing an affective dimension.
Is late modern art 'anti-aesthetic'? What does it mean to label a piece of art 'affectless'? These traditional characterizations of 1960s and 1970s art are radically challenged in this subversive art history. By introducing feeling to the analysis of this period, Susan Best ackn…