Orlan : millennial female / Kate Ince.
The French performance artist Orlan has acquired both fame and infamy for her performances. A multimedia artist since the 1960s, she embarked at the beginning of the 1990s on a project of body modification through plastic surgery.
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Berg,
2000.
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| Series: | Dress, body, culture.
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| Online Access: | Berg Fashion Library |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : The story of Orlan
- Operations of redress: Orlan, the body, and its limits
- Hard(core) images: Orlan's carnal art, the monstrous-feminine, and spectatorship
- Cyborg women, posthumanity, and technological body art
- Between the acts: postmodern performance art, cosmetic surgery, and the feminist performative reconstruction of female subjectivity
- Conclusion : The millennial female
- Chronology of Orlan's artistic itinerary.