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Embodied avatars : genealogies of black feminist art and performance / Uri McMillan.
Fine Arts Library NX512.3.A35 M39 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McMillan, Uri.
- Series:
- Sexual cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Performance art--United States.
- Performance art.
- United States.
- African American women performance artists.
- Feminism in art.
- Identity (Philosophical concept) in art.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- "Tracing a dynamic genealogy of performance from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, McMillan contends that black women artists practiced a purposeful self-objectification, transforming themselves into art objects. In doing so, these artists raised new ways to ponder the intersections of art, performance, and black female embodiment." Back cover.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Performing Objects
- Mammy Memory: The Curious Case of Joice Heth, the Ancient Negress
- Passing Performances: Ellen Craft's Fugitive Selves
- Plastic Possibilities: Adrian Piper's Adamant Self-Alienation
- Is This Performance about You?: The Art, Activism, and Black Feminist Critique of Howardena Pindell
- Conclusion: 'I've Been Performing My Whole Life'.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-282) and index.
- William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Winner, 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781479802111
- 1479802115
- 9781479852475
- 1479852473
- OCLC:
- 906010730
- Publisher Number:
- 40025304965
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