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Smith, Cherise.

En-acting "others": Ethnic, gender, and racial performance in works by Eleanor Antin, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	En-acting "others": Ethnic, gender, and racial performance in works by Eleanor Antin, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith.
Author:	Smith, Cherise.
Description:	268 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Wanda Corn.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-11, Section: A, page: 4025.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-11A.
Subject:	Art History.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3153103
ISBN:	9780496135493

En-acting "others": Ethnic, gender, and racial performance in works by Eleanor Antin, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith.
Smith, Cherise.

En-acting "others": Ethnic, gender, and racial performance in works by Eleanor Antin, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith. - 268 p.

Adviser: Wanda Corn.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2005.

En-Acting "Others" examines how identity is negotiated by closely reading three different performances, one each by Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, and Anna Deavere Smith, in which the artist takes-on the characteristics and manners of a racial, ethnic, and gender "other." Chapter one centers on Adrian Piper's Mythic Being performances (1973--1975) in which the artist dressed as a man she termed "third world" and "working class." Chapter two focuses on Eleanor Antin's three-week long performance of the fictional black ballerina Eleanora Antinova in 1980 and her book Being Antinova (1983). In chapter three, I study Anna Deavere Smith's staged-for-video performance of Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (2001) in which she enacts twenty-eight characters from different racial, gender, cultural, and professional backgrounds. In addition to interpreting the visual remains of their performances in the public environments of the street and theatre, this dissertation explores how the works functioned for the artists in the private space of their writings.

ISBN: 9780496135493Subjects--Topical Terms:

212490
Art History.

En-acting "others": Ethnic, gender, and racial performance in works by Eleanor Antin, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith.
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