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Born

Singapore

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Art, Nonfiction

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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Elisabeth Grosz, Griselda Pollock

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Susan Best is professor of art history and theory at Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.

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	Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It's Not Personal: Post 60s Body Art and Performance 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reparative Aesthetics: Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	William Yang: Seeing and Being Seen by Rosie Hays (Contributor), Benjamin Law (Contributor), Susan Best (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Robyn Backen, Backspace: The Art of Communication, Works 1990-2010 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadow Land by Anne Ferran, Susan Best (Goodreads Author), Felicity Johnson (editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Beautiful Hesitation by Fiona Pardington (Photographer), Aaron Lister (Editor), Kriselle Baker (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mikala Dwyer: A Shape of Thought by Wayne Tunnicliffe (Editor), Helen Hughes, Susan Best (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Lateness and Longing: On the Afterlife of Photography (Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Collection)

by George Baker

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Counter-realism: Art and subjectivity in contemporary capitalism (Rethinking Art's Histories)

by Tamara Trodd

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Discriminations: Making Peace in the Culture Wars

by A. C. Grayling

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Susan rated a book it was ok Into the Loop: An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition by Samuele Collu	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Such an interesting topic on couple therapy and compulsive repetition. We chose it for a psychoanalytic reading group and while very enthusiastic about the introduction, we all found the first chapter hard going. We were interested in the therapy but ...more
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Susan rated a book really liked it Humanities Theory (Literature And Politics) by Amanda Anderson	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The first essay by Simon During is excellent, if very depressing about the state of the humanities. The second by Amanda Anderson outlines problems with some contemporary orthodoxies in a very cautious manner. Both conclude with Graeber and Wengrow's ...more
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Such an interesting topic on couple therapy and compulsive repetition. We chose it for a psychoanalytic reading group and while very enthusiastic about the introduction, we all found the first chapter hard going. We were interested in the therapy but ...more
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Susan finished reading Interstices: Negotiations at Contemporary Art’s Boundaries (Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Collection) by Alexander Alberro	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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