Susan Best
Susan Best is an art historian with expertise in critical theory and modern and contemporary art. Best is an Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales.
Her book, Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde[1] focuses on four women artists of the 1960s and 70s: Eva Hesse, Lygia Clark, Ana Mendieta and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.[2] It shows how their work transforms the avant-garde protocols of the period by introducing an affective dimension to late modern art.[2] According to Suzannah Biernoff Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde "should be compulsory reading for anyone interested in psychoanalytic approaches to art."[3] The project was funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery grant.
Awards
In 2012, her book Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde won the best book prize awarded by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand.[4]
Selected Books
- Best SM, 2011, Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde, I B Tauris, London.
- Best, Susan (2011). Robyn Backen, Backspace: The Art of Communication: Works from 1990-2010. Sydney: Boccalatte Publishing. ISBN 9780980631227.
Selected Book Chapters
- Best SM, 2014, 'Anne Ferran: Histories of Women and Other Blind Spots', in 'Anne Ferran: Shadow Land, Power Publications, Sydney.
- Best SM, 2014, 'Mineral Nature: Mikala Dwyer Rocks', in Mikala Dwyer: The Garden of Half-Life, University of Sydney, University Art Gallery, Sydney, pp. 12 – 19.
- Best SM, 2013, 'Lygia Clark, the Paris Years: The Body as Medium and Material', in Posman S; Reverseau A; Ayers D; Bru S; Hjartarson B (ed.), The Aesthetics of Matter. Modernism, the Avant-Garde, and Material Exchange, edn. 1st ed., Walter de Grutyer, Berlin, pp. 292 – 301.
- Best SM, 2011, 'Rivane Neuenschwander and the Legacy of Tropicalia', in McNamara A (ed.), Sweat: The Subtropical Imaginary, edn. 1, IMA, Brisbane and Urban Modernities Research Group, QUT, Brisbane, pp. 28 – 43
- Best SM, 2009, 'Relational Art, Identification and the Social Bond', in Gonçalves LR (ed.), The Institutionalization of Contemporary Art: Art criticism, museums, biennials and the art market., Museu de Arte Contemporânea, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, pp. 217 – 225.
- Best SM, 2004, 'Joan Brassil', in The Grove Library of World Art, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
- Best SM, 2004, 'Joan Grounds & Sherre DeLys Tickled Pink Laughter as Intitutional Critique', in Carlos I (ed.), Biennale of Sydney 2004 On Reason and Emotion, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, pp. 98 – 99.
- Best SM, 2001, 'You are on Aboriginal Land: Landscape after Land Rights', in Green C (ed.), Postcolonialism + Art Where Now?, Artspace Visual Art Centre, Sydney.
- Best SM, 2001, 'Elemental Constructions:Women Artists and Sculpture in the Expanded Field', in Getczy A; Genocchio B (ed.), What Is Installation?, Power Publications, Sydney, pp. 185 – 205.
References
- ↑ Best, Susan. Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 9781848858510.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Moody, Alys (20 January 2014). "Interview: Susan Best". Das Super Paper (Das Platforms) (29): 26–29.
- ↑ Biernoff, Suzannah (2013). "Beyond Zombie Art: Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avant-Garde". Parallax 19 (4): 84–89.
- ↑ "aaanz book/catalogue prizes - 2012 prizes". Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. Retrieved 26 October 2014.