Martyna Ewa Majewska

African American Artists Performing for the Camera After 1970

Against Transparency

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032747422
• ISBN-10: 1032747420
• Artikelnr.: 72111815

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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
Notes
Bibliography
Index