Susan Best

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Susan Best FAHA is an art historian with expertise in critical theory and modern and contemporary art. Best is a professor at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.

Contents

Her book, Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde [1] focuses on four 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 2017, Reparative Aesthetics: Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography was the joint winner of the best book prize awarded by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, an organisation with over three hundred members. [4]

In 2017, she was elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities. [5]

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. [6]

Selected books

Selected Book Chapters

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References

  1. Best, Susan (30 June 2011). Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde. I.B.Tauris. ISBN   9781848858510.
  2. 1 2 Moody, Alys (20 January 2014). "Interview: Susan Best" (PDF). Das Super Paper (29). Das Platforms: 26–29.
  3. Biernoff, Suzannah (2013). "Beyond Zombie Art: Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avant-Garde". Parallax. 19 (4): 84–89. doi:10.1080/13534645.2013.845402. S2CID   170739832.
  4. "AAANZ Prizes".
  5. "Welcoming our 23 newly elected Fellows". Australian Academy of the Humanities Australian Academy of the Humanities. 19 November 2017. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  6. "aaanz book/catalogue prizes - 2012 prizes". Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
  7. bloomsbury.com. "It's Not Personal". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  8. Susan, Best (20 October 2016). Reparative aesthetics : witnessing in contemporary art photography. London. ISBN   9781472529862. OCLC   932577107.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  9. Susan, Best (11 December 2013). Visualizing feeling : affect and the feminine avant-garde. London. ISBN   9781780767093. OCLC   875735277.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  10. Susan., Best (2011). Robyn Backen : backspace : the art of communication : works from 1990-2010. Surry Hills, N.S.W.: Boccalatte. ISBN   9780980631227. OCLC   768735811.
  11. Thierry, De Duve (2014). Anne Ferran : Shadow Land. Best, Susan,, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. Sydney: Power Publications. ISBN   9781876793456. OCLC   891993714.
  12. Mikala, Dwyer (2014). Mikala Dwyer : the garden of half-life. Parker, Luke., Best, Susan., University of Sydney. University Art Gallery. The University Of Sydney, N.S.W. ISBN   9781742103372. OCLC   889754376.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)