Bowles Adrian Piper

Race, Gender, and Embodiment
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9373-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

This in-depth analysis of Adrian Pipers art locates her groundbreaking work at the nexus of Conceptual and feminist art of the late 1960s and 1970s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bowles, John P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations vii

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: Adrian Piper's Performance of Race and the Moral Question of Racism 1

Section I, 1965–1970
The Paradox of the Black Woman Conceptual Artist

1. Contingent and Universal: Adrian Piper and the Minimalist Ideal 33

2. Hypothesis: Modernism and the Woman Artist's Studio 69

Section II, 1970–1975
Personal Politics and Performance Art

3. May 1970: Art and Activism 125

4. Catalysis: Feminist Art and Experience 162

5. Food for the Spirit: Transcendence and Desire 205

6. "Acting Like a Man": The Mythic Being and Black Feminism 229

Conclusion: The Mythic Being and the Aesthetics of Direct Address 257

Notes 263

Bibliography 299

Index 319

Über Autor(innen)

John P. Bowles is Associate Professor of African American Art at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His articles and art criticism have appeared in Signs, American Art, Art Journal, Art in America, and Art Papers, among other publications.