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Fabulous Harlequin: ORLAN and the Patchwork Self
Jorge Veneciano
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Description for Fabulous Harlequin: ORLAN and the Patchwork Self
paperback. Photos of ORLAN's latest project, "Suture/Hybridisation/Recycling", along with critical essays on ORLAN's work Editor(s): Veneciano, Jorge Daniel; Garelick, Rhonda. Series: Life in Performance. Num Pages: 176 pages, 150 color Illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFK; AGB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 303 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 1008.
For four decades the internationally renowned French artist ORLAN has interrogated every defining aspect of being human—gender, ethnicity, religion, beauty, physiognomy, and even physiology itself—through an endlessly mutating oeuvre that defies categorization. Performance, sculpture, photography, poetry, design—ORLAN not only creates within these media, she disappears into them, willfully dissolving and reconfiguring her identity through her work. ORLAN is most famous for her series of cosmetic-surgery performances in the 1990s in which she reconfigured her face and body as a critique of the standards of beauty imposed on women. In 2008, in a seemingly radical departure, ORLAN chose to disappear from her work entirely, ... Read more
For four decades the internationally renowned French artist ORLAN has interrogated every defining aspect of being human—gender, ethnicity, religion, beauty, physiognomy, and even physiology itself—through an endlessly mutating oeuvre that defies categorization. Performance, sculpture, photography, poetry, design—ORLAN not only creates within these media, she disappears into them, willfully dissolving and reconfiguring her identity through her work. ORLAN is most famous for her series of cosmetic-surgery performances in the 1990s in which she reconfigured her face and body as a critique of the standards of beauty imposed on women. In 2008, in a seemingly radical departure, ORLAN chose to disappear from her work entirely, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Life in Performance
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803234758
SKU
V9780803234758
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About Jorge Veneciano
Jorge Daniel Veneciano is the director of the Sheldon Museum of Art. He is the author of Imago: The Drama of Self-Portraiture in Recent Photography; Neo-Constructivism: Art, Architecture, and Activism; and Play’s the Thing: Reading the Art of Jun Kaneko. Rhonda K. Garelick is a professor in the Department of English and at the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing ... Read more
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