Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith

by Cherise Smith

Book Overview

The artists Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith, and Nikki S. Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender, and class boundaries in works that they have conceived and performed. Cherise Smith analyzes their complex engagements with issues of identity through close readings of a significant performance, or series of performances, by each artist. She examines Piper's public embodiment of the Mythic Being, a working-class black man, during...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822347822
• ISBN13: 9780822347828
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"