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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Bryan, C. Jill
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 female identity, and complicates the notion of identity-and its relation to the body-at the boundary dividing art from identity.
Physical Description:1 online resource (224 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780816695805

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