Adrian Piper : race, gender, and embodiment / John P. Bowles.

Author/creator Bowles, John Parish, 1968-
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Descriptionxiv, 335 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm
Subjects
Piper, Adrian, 1948---Criticism and interpretation.
Race in art.
Gender identity in art.

Contents Introduction: Adrian Piper's performance of race and the moral question of racism -- Contingent and universal : Adrian Piper and the minimalist ideal -- Hypothesis : modernism and the woman artist's studio -- May 1970 : art and activism -- Catalysis : feminist art and experience -- Food for the spirit : transcendence and desire -- "Acting like a man" : the mythic being and black feminism -- Conclusion: the mythic being and the aesthetics of direct address.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010035880
ISBN9780822348962 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822348969 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822349204 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0822349205 (pbk. : alk. paper)