Radical presence : Black performance in contemporary art / Valerie Cassel Oliver ; essays by Yona Backer ... [and others].

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cassel Oliver, Valerie (Author, Curator)
Arning, Bill (Author, writer of introduction, etc.)
Bäcker, Yona (Author)
Ochieng' Nyongó, Tavia Amolo (Author)
Beckwith, Naomi (Author)
Sirmans, Franklin (Author)
Owens, Clifford, 1971- (Author)
Corporate Author: Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston, Tex.) (Host institution)
Language:English
Published: Houston : Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, [2013]
Subjects:
Performance art > United States > Exhibitions.
Performance artists > United States > Exhibitions.
African American arts > Exhibitions.
African American artists > Exhibitions.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Physical Description:144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 x 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword / Bill Arning
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Putting the body on the line: endurance in Black performance / Valerie Cassel Oliver
  • Performance trace: staged actions, live art, and performance made for the camera / Yona Backer
  • Between the body and the flesh: sex and gender in Black performance art / Tavia Nyong'o
  • Dark mirrors: performance documents as bodily evidence / Naomi Beckwith
  • No safety net: Lorraine O'Grady and performing in public without sanction / Franklin Sirmans
  • Notes on the crisis of Black American performance art / Clifford Owens
  • Works
  • Performances
  • Chronology
  • Artists' biographies
  • Works in the exhibition
  • Selected bibliography.