African American Artists Performing for the Camera After 1970

Auteur

Martyna Ewa Majewska is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, The University of Manchester.

Texte du rabat

This study demonstrates how African American artists active since the 1970s have instrumentalized performance for the camera to intervene in existing representations of Black and Brown people in America and beyond.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Exaggerated Features: Adrian Piper on the Limits of Performativity

PART I "The Artist Formerly Known as African-American"

PART II The threat of "miscegenation" and the visual construction of race

Chapter 2. The Outrageous Abstraction of Senga Nengudi's Performance Photography

Chapter 3. Howardena Pindell's and Maren Hassinger's Subversive Video-Narcissism

Chapter 4. Feeble Monuments: David Hammons and Pope.L Underperforming for the Camera

Conclusion: Communication with Shadows

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