Embodied Avatars : Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance /

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Tracing a dynamic genealogy of performance from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Uri 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: McMillan, Uri (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Performance art.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in art.
Feminism in art.
African American women.
ART > Subjects & Themes > General.
Identite dans l'art.
Feminisme dans l'art.
Noires americaines.
Performance art > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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'.

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