Embodied Avatars: Genealogies Of Black Feminist Art And Performance (Sexual Cultures, 5)

Tracing a dynamic genealogy of performance from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, McMillian 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 art, performance, and black female embodiment.--Back cover.

• • Author: Uri McMillan
• • Publisher: Nyu Press
• • Publication Date: Nov 04, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 304 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1479802115
• • ISBN-13: 9781479802111