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Carnal Art, Orlan’s Refacing

Notes

Considers how the artist’s ever-fluctuating reconstructions of her face question idealized beauty and female identity, persuasively arguing that Orlan’s surgically reinvented face succeeds in both reinforcing and breaking apart corporeal subjectivity and representation.

Artist / Author C. Jill O'Bryan
Publisher University of Minnesota Press
ISBN 0-8166-4323-7
Reference P0732
Date 2005
Type Publication

Keywords

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