John P. Bowles
Adrian Piper: Race, Gender, and Embodiment
Durham, NC:
Duke University Press,
2011.
368 pp.; 17 color ills.; 52 b/w ills.
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$25.95
(9780822349204)
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December 28, 2011
Cherise Smith
Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith
Durham, NC:
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2011.
336 pp.; 18 color ills.; 40 b/w ills.
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Cherise Smith’s Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deveare Smith and John P. Bowles’s Adrian Piper: Race, Gender and Embodiment each explore performance, identity, and the role that the body plays in both. More than isolated studies of artists, however, these texts are equally concerned with the discourses that surround them. Through her survey of four female artists working in performance from the late 1970s to...