Susan Best

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.

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 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.[4]

In 2017, she was elected to the 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

  • Best SM, 2016, Reparative Aesthetics: Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography, Bloosmbury Academic, London.[7]
  • Best SM, 2011, Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde, I B Tauris, London.[8]
  • Best, Susan (2011). Robyn Backen, Backspace: The Art of Communication: Works from 1990-2010. Sydney: Boccalatte Publishing. ISBN 9780980631227. [9]

Selected Book Chapters

  • Best SM, 2014, 'Anne Ferran: Histories of Women and Other Blind Spots', in Anne Ferran: Shadow Land, Power Publications, Sydney.[10]
  • 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.[11]
  • 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

  1. ↑ Best, Susan. 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. Das Platforms (29): 26–29.
  3. ↑ Biernoff, Suzannah (2013). "Beyond Zombie Art: Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avant-Garde". Parallax. 19 (4): 84–89.
  4. ↑ "AAANZ Prizes".
  5. ↑ "Welcoming our 23 newly elected Fellows". Australian Academy of the Humanities Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  6. ↑ "aaanz book/catalogue prizes - 2012 prizes". Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
  7. ↑ Susan,, Best,. Reparative aesthetics : witnessing in contemporary art photography. London. ISBN 9781472529862. OCLC 932577107.
  8. ↑ Susan,, Best,. Visualizing feeling : affect and the feminine avant-garde. London. ISBN 9781780767093. OCLC 875735277.
  9. ↑ Susan., Best, (2011). Robyn Backen : backspace : the art of communication : works from 1990-2010. Surry Hills, N.S.W.: Boccalatte. ISBN 9780980631227. OCLC 768735811.
  10. ↑ Thierry,, De Duve,. Anne Ferran : Shadow Land. Best, Susan,, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. Sydney: Power Publications. ISBN 9781876793456. OCLC 891993714.
  11. ↑ Mikala,, Dwyer,. 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.
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