Embodied avatars : genealogies of black feminist art and performance /
By: McMillan, Uri [author.]
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BookSeries: Sexual cultures: Publisher: New York : New York University Press , 2015Description: 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781479802111; 1479802115; 9781479852475; 1479852473.Subject(s): Performance art -- United States | African American women performance artists | Feminism in art | Identity (Philosophical concept) in artDDC classification: 704.042 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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BardBerlinLibrary 2nd floor | 704.042 MCM 2015 (Browse shelf) | Available |
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."
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