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Performing Endurance: Art and Politics since 1960
Artist/Author: Lara Shalson | Reference: P3716 | ISBN: 978-1108426459 | Type: Publication

Examining a range of performances from the 1960s to the present, as well as protest actions from the lunch counter sit-ins of the US civil rights movement to protest camps in the twenty-first century, this book provides a formal account of endurance and illuminates its ethical and political significance.

Adrian Heathfield aggression alienation Amelia Jones audience body body art Chris Burden civil rights discomfort ethics human rights institution life Linda Montano Marina Abramović objecthood pain politics race racism Tehching Hsieh time United States violence Yoko Ono

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.

abolitionism Adrian Piper agency body cultural studies Ellen Craft embodiment engraving ethnicity female freak show gender history Howardena Pindell Joice Heth literary analysis mammy memory Nicki Minaj objecthood performance art photography politics race representation resistance Simone Leigh slavery theory video art

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