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Cherise Smith. Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith (Duke, 2011)

Written by Carla on April 23, 2011 — Leave a Comment

Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith. Cherise Smith, Duke University Press, 2011, 336 pages, 58 illus., including 18 color plates, paperback, ISBN 978-0-8223-4799-6, $24.95.

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The artists Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith, and Nikki S. Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender, and [...]

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Eyeminded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art by Kellie Jones (Duke, 2011)

Written by Carla on January 27, 2011 — Leave a Comment

Eyeminded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art. Kellie Jones, Duke University Press, May 2011, 464 pages, 27 illustrations, cloth ISBN 978-0-8223-4861-0 $99.95; paper ISBN 978-0-8223-4873-3 $29.95.
Check out this wonderful profile on Jones (with lots of photos): Tales of the Real Village People: Or How She Became Kellie Jones. Amazon isn’t even listing this title yet, nor can you pre-order it [...]

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Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject (Duke, 2010)

Written by Carla on March 25, 2010 — Leave a Comment

Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject. Kristen Pai Buick, Duke University Press, January 2010, 44 pages, 51 illustrations, incl. 18 in color, 0-8223-4247-2, ISBN13 978-0-8223-4247-2, Cloth – $89.95, 0-8223-4266-9, ISBN13 978-0-8223-4266-3, Paperback – $24.95.

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Child of the Fire is the first [...]

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