Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance (Sexual Cultures) By Uri McMillan
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Most Helpful Tracing a dynamic genealogy of performance from the nineteenth to the twenty first century Uri McMillan contends that black women artists practiced a purposeful self objectification transforming themselves into art objects In doing so these artists raised new ways to ponder the intersections of art performance and black female embodiment McMillan reframes the concept of the avatar in the service of black performance art describing black women performers skillful Embodied Avatars presents a sweeping and charismatic investigation of the ways in which Black women have strategically staged versions of themselves as modes of public personal and critical performance and as interventions in art expression identity id
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