Carnal art : Orlan's refacing / C. Jill O'Bryan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Bryan, C. Jill.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Body art--France.

Body art.

Performance art--France.

Performance art.

Surgery in art.

Orlan--Criticism and interpretation.

Orlan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 199, [16] pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The French artist Orlan is infamous for performances during which her body is surgically altered. Responding to Orlan's definition of her performance surgeries as "carnal art," C. Jill O'Bryan considers how the artist's ever-fluctuating face questions idealized beauty and female identity, and complicates the notion of identity-and its relation to the body-at the boundary dividing art from identity.

Contents:

Introduction: Shape-shifting

Orlan's body of work

Looking inside the human body

Between self and other

Interior/exterior

Beauty/The monstrous feminine

Penetrating layers of flesh: carving in/out the body of Orlan

Few comments on self-hybridations

Extractions: a performative dialogue "with" Orlan.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9580-6

OCLC:

191934816