Carnal Art : Orlan's Refacing /

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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 fe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: O'Bryan, C. Jill
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Orlan.
Orlan > Criticism and interpretation.
Theme artistique.
Chirurgie.
Art de performance.
Art charnel.
Surgery in art.
Performance art.
Body art.
ART > Criticism & Theory.
Chirurgie dans l'art.
Art corporel > France.
Performance art > France.
Body art > France.
France.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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