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Description for Carnal Art
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 29 b&w.ill.25col.ill. BIC Classification: AFKP; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 177 x 13. Weight in Grams: 440.
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, Gérard, 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 ... Read more
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, Gérard, 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816643233
SKU
V9780816643233
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