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Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance
Artist/Author: Uri McMillan | Reference: P2837 | ISBN: 978-1479852475 | Type: Publication
Tracing a dynamic genealogy of performance from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Uri McMillan contends that black women artists practiced a purposeful self- objectification, transforming themselves into art objects.
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