McMillan, Uri,
Embodied avatars : genealogies of black feminist art and performance / - New York : New York University Press , 2015 . - 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Sexual cultures . - Sexual cultures. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-282) and index.
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'.
"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."
9781479802111 1479802115 9781479852475 1479852473
40025304965
2015014811
GBB5B5728 bnb
017506212 Uk 017506212 Uk
Performance art--United States.
African American women performance artists.
Feminism in art.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in art.
NX512.3.A35 / M39 2015
704.042
7.071-054 (=96) MAC
Embodied avatars : genealogies of black feminist art and performance / - New York : New York University Press , 2015 . - 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Sexual cultures . - Sexual cultures. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-282) and index.
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'.
"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."
9781479802111 1479802115 9781479852475 1479852473
40025304965
2015014811
GBB5B5728 bnb
017506212 Uk 017506212 Uk
Performance art--United States.
African American women performance artists.
Feminism in art.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in art.
NX512.3.A35 / M39 2015
704.042
7.071-054 (=96) MAC