{"product_id":"a-decade-of-negative-thinking-9780822346029","title":"A Decade of Negative Thinking","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeatures writings on contemporary art and culture by the author, a painter and feminist art theorist. Mixing theory and practice, the personal and the political, this book tackles questions about the place of feminism in art and political discourse, and the aesthetics and values of contemporary painting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mira Schor reminds us that some of the best, and most eye-opening, writing on art has always been made by artists themselves. The essays in \u003ci\u003eA Decade of Negative Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e demolish countless widely held assumptions about contemporary art, and do so with a compelling blend of skepticism and passion.”—\u003cb\u003eRaphael Rubinstein\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003ePolychrome Profusion: Selected Art Criticism, 1990–2002\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This collection of essays by one of the most engaging writers of contemporary art critically excavates and redefines the enduring questions in aesthetics and politics with extraordinary verve and urgency.”—\u003cb\u003eGunalan Nadarajan\u003c\/b\u003e, Vice Provost for Research, Maryland Institute College of Art\u003cbr\u003e\"An excellent new book. . . .” -- Holland Cotter * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e“Witty and lucid, showing that she’s a believer in art’s power, despite all the naysaying.” -- David O’Neill * Bookforum *\u003cbr\u003e“Schor is both an artist and a writer, maybe the perfect person to consider in this search for uncorrupt, valuable criticism. In her excellent book \u003ci\u003eA Decade of Negative Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e, she describes anonymous online commenting as the worst possible type of criticism, because it almost always falls into what she calls the ‘sucks\/bullshit’ mode. (Ah, yup.) If you're looking for the opposite of that, pick up the book.” -- Jen Graves * The Stranger *\u003cbr\u003e“Schor stakes out her own distinctive critical territory at the intersections of imagination and practice, concept and craft, anger and hope, humor and gravity. . . . It’s refreshing to accompany Schor as she look sat and opines on the state of culture. As she concludes in the book’s final essay, two qualities an artist can use to escape the trap of recipe art are ‘necessity , and having something to say with an investment in the formal means you use to say it.’ Schor has both.” -- Kathleen Rooney * Bitch *\u003cbr\u003e“The essays collected in \u003ci\u003eA Decade of Negative Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e present lucid, highly engaged and engaging reflections on the politics, rhetoric and political economy of artistic practice.” -- Matt Davies * Visual Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e Part 1:She Said, She Said: Feminist Debates, 1971–2009 \u003cbr\u003e The \u003ci\u003eism\u003c\/i\u003e that dare not speak its name \u003cbr\u003e Anonymity as a Political Tactic: Art Blogs, Feminism, Writing, and Politics \u003cbr\u003e Generation 2.5 \u003cbr\u003e Email to a Young Woman Artist \u003cbr\u003e The \u003ci\u003eWomanhouse\u003c\/i\u003e Films \u003cbr\u003e Miss Elizabeth Bennett Goes to Feminist Boot Camp \u003cbr\u003e Part 2:Painting \u003cbr\u003e Some Notes on Women and Abstraction and a Curious Case History: Alice Neel as a Great Abstract Painter \u003cbr\u003e Like a Veneer \u003cbr\u003e Modest Painting \u003cbr\u003e Blurring Richter \u003cbr\u003e Off the Grid: Weather Conditions in Lower Manhattan, September 11, 2001 to October 2, 2001 \u003cbr\u003e Part 3:Trite Tropes \u003cbr\u003e Trite Tropes, Clichés, or the Persistence of Styles \u003cbr\u003e Recipe Art \u003cbr\u003e Work and Play \u003cbr\u003e New Tales of Scheherazade \u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Work document: \u003ci\u003eGrey\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406057513303,"sku":"9780822346029","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822346029.jpg?v=1730494385","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-decade-of-negative-thinking-9780822346029","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}