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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Adrian Piper: Race, Gender, and Embodiment

Adrian Piper: Race, Gender, and Embodiment

Bowles, John P.

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American Art - African American & BlackIndividual ArtistsWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 0822349205
ISBN13: 9780822349204
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Feb 14 2011
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
In 1972 the artist Adrian Piper began periodically dressing as a persona called the Mythic Being, striding the streets of New York in a mustache, Afro wig, and mirrored sunglasses with a cigar in the corner of her mouth. Her Mythic Being performances critically engaged with popular representations of race, gender, sexuality, and class; they challenged viewers to accept personal responsibility for xenophobia and discrimination and the conditions that allowed them to persist. Piper's work confronts viewers and forces them to reconsider assumptions about the social construction of identity. Adrian Piper: Race, Gender, and Embodiment is an in-depth analysis of this pioneering artist's work, illustrated with more than ninety images, including twenty-one in color.

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