Race, Gender, and Embodiment
by John P. Bowles
- Author(s)
- John P. Bowles
- Publication, year
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2011
- Scope
- 336 Pages, illustrated, 3.5 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780822393733
In 1972 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 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. Over the course of a decade, John P. Bowles and Piper conversed about her art and its meaning, reception, and relation to her scholarship on Kant’s philosophy. This publication is an in-depth analysis of Piper's pioneering work.
- Person as subject
- Adrian Piper
- Location
- Cabinet 6 - 5: Kunstenaars
- Remarks
- Incl. Notes, Bibliography, Index
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