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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]
  • ©2013

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  • Cassel Oliver, Valerie
  • Arning, Bill
  • Bäcker, Yona
  • Ochieng' Nyongó, Tavia Amolo
  • Beckwith, Naomi
  • Sirmans, Franklin
  • Owens, Clifford
  • Contemporary Arts Museum, host institution. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his
Description
144 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 x 23 cm
Subject
  • Performance art > United States > Exhibitions
  • Performance artists > United States > Exhibitions
  • African American arts > Exhibitions
  • African American artists > Exhibitions
Note
  • 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.
ISBN
  • 9781933619385
  • 1933619384
LCCN
2013942828
OCLC
  • ocn841484904
  • 841484904
  • SCSB-9570467
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries