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Radical presence : Black performance in contemporary art

Title: Radical presence : Black performance in contemporary art / Valerie Cassel Oliver ; essays by Yona Backer ... [and others].
Publication: Houston : Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston [2013]

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144 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 x 23 cm

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Exhibition catalog.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston November 17, 2012-February 15, 2013, and three other venues through January 2015.
Includes work by artists: Derrick Adams, Terry Adkins, Papo Colo, Jamal Cyrus, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Zachary Fabri, Sherman Fleming, Coco Fusco, Theaster Gates, Girl (Chitra Ganesh + Simone Leigh), David Hammons, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Lyle Ashton Harris, Maren Hassinger, Wayne Hodge, Satch Hoyt, Ulysses Jenkins, Shaun El C. Leonardo, Kalup Linzy, Dave McKenzie, Jayson Musson, Senga Nengudi, Tameka Norris, Lorraine O'Grady, Clifford Owens, Benjamin Patterson, Adam Pendleton, Adrian Piper, Pope.L (formerly known as William Pope.L), Rammellzee, Jacolby Satterwhite, Dread Scott, Xaviera Simmons, Sur Rodney (Sur), Daniel Tisdale, and Carrie Mae Weems.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (page 141).

Contents

Foreword / Bill Arning -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Putting the body on the line: endurance in Black performance / Valerie Cassel Oliver -- Performance trace: staged actions, live art, and performance made for the camera / Yona Backer -- Between the body and the flesh: sex and gender in Black performance art / Tavia Nyong'o -- Dark mirrors: performance documents as bodily evidence / Naomi Beckwith -- No safety net: Lorraine O'Grady and performing in public without sanction / Franklin Sirmans -- Notes on the crisis of Black American performance art / Clifford Owens -- Works -- Performances -- Chronology -- Artists' biographies -- Works in the exhibition -- Selected bibliography.

Call Number

Sc F 13-226

ISBN

9781933619385
1933619384

LCCN

2013942828

OCLC

841484904

Title

Radical presence : Black performance in contemporary art / Valerie Cassel Oliver ; essays by Yona Backer ... [and others].

Publisher

Houston : Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston [2013]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 141).

Added Author

Cassel Oliver, Valerie, curator, author. Curator. Author

Arning, Bill, author. Author of introduction

Bäcker, Yona, author. Author

Ochieng' Nyongó, Tavia Amolo, author. Author

Beckwith, Naomi, author. Author

Sirmans, Franklin, author. Author

Owens, Clifford, 1971- Author

Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston, Tex.), host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc F 13-226

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