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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Deutsche’s writing brilliantly reveals the complexities and tensions of a period that no one categorical designation can fully encompass. Her deep, sustained relationships with many of the artists she writes about make this collection invaluable to writers and artists as a model for balancing affective engagement with rigorous critical fairness and independence.”
-- Ann Reynolds, University of Texas at Austin
“Not-Forgetting’s urgent topic is the ‘shared project’ of feminism, radical democracy, and war resistance. Deutsche brilliantly illuminates the role of art in shaping that project through an innovative matrix of psychoanalysis, feminism, poststructuralism, and critical theory. This is an intellectually original, timely, and compelling book.” -- Mignon Nixon, University College London
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part One: Psychoanalytic Feminism
1 Not-Forgetting: Mary Kelly’s
Love Songs (2006)
2 Inadequacy: Silvia Kolbowski’s History of Conceptual Art (2004)
3 Darkness: The Emergence of James Welling (2002)
4 Breaking Ground: Barbara Kruger’s Spatial Practice (1999)
5 Louise Lawler’s Rude Museum (2006)
Part Two: Radical Democracy
6 Christopher D’Arcangelo’s Elliptical Interruptions (2020)
7 The Art of Not Being Governed Quite So Much: Hans Haacke’s Polls (2007)
8 Art from Guantánamo Bay (2020)
9 Reasonable Urbanism (1999)
Part Three: War Resistance
10 Un-War: An Aesthetic Sketch (2014)
11 Museum of Innocence (2014)
12 “We don’t need another hero”: War and Public Memory (2017)
13 Louise Lawler’s Play Technique (2017)
14 Mary Kelly’s Attunement (2017/2020)
15 Martha Rosler’s Unrest (2018)
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
