Embodied Avatars

Description:

"Tracing a dynamic genealogy of performance from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, McMillian 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."

subjects: African american women,  African american artists,  Feminism and art,  Performance art,  Feminism in art,  African American women performance artists,  Identity (Philosophical concept) in art