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Speaking out of turn : Lorraine O'Grady and the art of language

Title
Speaking out of turn : Lorraine O'Grady and the art of language / Stephanie Sparling Williams.
Author
Williams, Stephanie Sparling
Publication
  • Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
  • ©2021

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Description
xv, 228 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plates; 27 cm
Summary
"Speaking Out of Turn is the first monograph dedicated to the forty-year oeuvre of feminist conceptual artist Lorraine O'Grady. Examining O'Grady's use of language, both written and spoken, Stephanie Sparling Williams charts the artist's strategic use of direct address--the dialectic posture her art takes in relationship to its viewers--to trouble the field of vision and claim a voice in the late 1970s to 1990s, when her voice was seen as "out of turn" in the art world. Speaking Out of Turn situates O'Grady's significant contributions within the history of American conceptualism and performance art, while also attending to the work's heightened visibility in the contemporary moment, revealing both the marginalization of O'Grady in the past and an urgent need to revisit her art in the present"--
Subject
  • O'Grady, Lorraine > Criticism and interpretation
  • O'Grady, Lorraine
  • 1900-1999
  • African American women photographers > Criticism and interpretation
  • African American women artists > Criticism and interpretation
  • African American historians > Criticism and interpretation
  • African American feminists > Criticism and interpretation
  • Conceptual art > United States > 20th century
  • Performance art > United States > 20th century
  • Feminists
  • African American women photographers
  • African American women artists
  • African American historians
  • African American feminists
  • Conceptual art
  • Performance art
  • Criticism and interpretation
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-214) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Mark my words -- "I am not a performance artist." -- Manifestos and mythmaking -- The diptych and "spatial narrative" -- Conclusion.
Call Number
Sc F 23-182
ISBN
  • 9780520380752
  • 0520380754
OCLC
1385420836
Author
Williams, Stephanie Sparling, author.
Title
Speaking out of turn : Lorraine O'Grady and the art of language / Stephanie Sparling Williams.
Publisher
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-214) and index.
Local Note
AUTH: MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE. EXAMINES O'GRADYS USE OF LANGUAGE IN WORKS OVER 40 YEAR CAREER. ILLUS.
Local Subject
Black author.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Research Call Number
Sc F 23-182
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