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The French artist Orlan is infamous for performances during which her body is surgically altered. In nine such performance surgeries, features from Greek goddesses painted by Botticelli, Gerard, Moreau, and an anonymous School of Fontainebleau artist, as well as from da Vinci's "Mona Lisa, were implanted into Orlan's face. During her surgical performances, viewers witness a material tampering with the relationship 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. Responding to Orlan's definition of her performance surgeries as "carnal art," C. Jill O'Bryan considers how the artist's ever-fluctuating reconstructions of her face question idealized beauty and female identity, persuasively arguing that Orlan's surgically reinvented face succeeds in both reinforcing and breaking apart corporeal subjectivity and representation. O'Bryan contextualizes Orlan's operations within the centuries-long history of public dissections and surgeries, lavish anatomical illustrations created to draw the gaze into the opened anatomy, Artaud's "Theater of Cruelty" in the early twentieth century, and contemporary works and performances by Cindy Sherman, Hans Bellman, and Annie Sprinkle. A compelling blurring of the line between feminist theory and art criticism, O'Bryan's close examination of Orlan's performance surgeries complicates and reconfigures the notions of identity--and its relation to the body--at the very boundary dividing art from identity.
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Paperback. Zustand: Fine. 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. Size: 8vo. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 094614
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