Description |
xi, 307 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-291) and index. |
Contents |
"The politics of my position" : Adrian Piper and mythic being -- The other "other" : Eleanor Antin and the performance of Blackness -- "Other-oriented" performance : Anna Deavere Smith and Twilight : Los Angeles -- Nikki S. Lee's projects and the repackaging of the politics of identity. |
Summary |
The artists Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith, and Nikki S. Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender, and class boundaries in works that they have conceived and performed. Cherise Smith analyzes their complex engagements with issues of identity through close readings of a significant performance or series of performances by each artist -- from cover. |
Subject |
Performance art -- Political aspects.
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Performance art -- Social aspects.
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Ethnicity in art.
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Gender identity in art.
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ISBN |
9780822347828 (cloth ;) (alk. paper) |
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0822347822 (cloth ;) (alk. paper) |
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9780822347996 (paperback;) (alk. paper) |
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0822347997 (paperback;) (alk. paper) |
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