Susan Best, Visualizing feeling: affect and the feminine avant-garde (London: I.B. Tauris, 2011).
Susan Best writes in the book Visualizing Feeling : Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde (2011) on case studieswhere she applies affect theory to photography. Best uses the concept of affect in relation to meeting with art. She describes how feminism can be seen as an avant-garde to form an alternative art concept. Best describeshow traditional aspects of femininity are linked to emotions as opposed to masculinity associated with logic andreason. This creates a binary logic, which Best with his theory of affect breaks down. Instead, she offers ananalytical method for art where psychology is combined with art history. Best's theory can be fruitful in showinghow theory of affect can be used when considering works of art.
/Susanne Fessé, December 2020
https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/visualizing-feeling-9781780767093/