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AH 441
Jennifer Doyle’s
Hold it Against Me
In this text, author Jennifer Doyle examines the correlation with the art and the emotions
of the artist, more specifically in contemporary art, and the difficulties it comes with… She
provides the reader with a new challenge: rather than paint and composition being the main point
of a contemporary art piece, emotions should also be factored in. Moreover, Doyle is trying to
push us to view art and their artists in a new way where the final piece is not only a result of
someone else’s emotions, but what if we connect it to our own. In this case, emotions are seen as
a carrying identity for contemporary artists, many of which have brought up work about race,
inequality, therefore making it political, which can inevitably be seen as controversial. It is seen
that way because it has been known in traditional art that emotions are not usually a main tool in
an art piece but rather facts and customs (relating to art history). Doyle brings up work from
James Luna, Ron Athey, Catherine Opie, Nao Bustamante, and many others in order to provide a
visual support to how identity and emotion should not be seen as controversial and criticized but