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Carnal Art : Orlan's Refacing /

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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: O'Bryan, C. Jill
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.