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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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O'Grady, Lorraine.
Description
xv, 228 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 26 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"--
Alternative Title
Lorraine O'Grady and the art of language
Subject
  • O'Grady, Lorraine > Criticism and interpretation
  • O'Grady, Lorraine
  • 1900-1999
  • Conceptual art > United States > 20th century
  • Performance art > United States > 20th century
  • Art conceptuel > États-Unis > 20e siècle
  • Conceptual art
  • Performance art
  • United States
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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.
ISBN
  • 9780520380752
  • 0520380754
  • 9780520384224 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2020054611
  • 99991500106
  • 99989647817
OCLC
  • on1226075688
  • 1226075688
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries