Carnal Art: Orlan's Refacing
by O'Bryan, C. Jill
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Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. xviii, 199 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "The French artist Orlan is famous for performances during which her body is surgically altered. During her performances, viewers witness a material tampering with the realtionship between the face and individual identity, the original and the constructed, a historical critique of the association of art with beauty and the female body." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Introduction: Shape-shifting; Orlan's body of work; Looking inside the human body; Between self and other; Interior/exterior; Beauty/The monstrous feminine; Penetrating layers of flesh: carving in/out the body of Orlan; Few comments on self-hybridations; Extractions: a performative dialogue "with" Orlan.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.
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- Title
- Carnal Art: Orlan's Refacing
- Author
- O'Bryan, C. Jill
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0816643237
- ISBN 13
- 9780816643233
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Place of Publication
- Minneapolis, MN
- Date Published
- 2005
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; European / French; Movements / Feminist Art; Movements / Body Art;
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