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Embodied Avatars

Uri McMillan

2015304 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2015
first published
  • 2015NYU Press · 304 pages · ENGISBN 9781479852475
  • 2015NYU Press · 304 pagesISBN 9781479802111

"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."

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