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Author: Simon Donger
ISBN: 9780415562348

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From the publisher

ORLAN: A Hybrid Body of Artworks is an in-depth academic account of ORLAN's pioneering art in its entirety. The book covers her career in performance and a range of other art forms. This single accessible overview of ORLAN's practices describes and analyses her various innovative uses of the body as artistic material.

Edited by Simon Donger with Simon Shepherd and ORLAN herself, the collection highlights her artistic impact from the perspectives of both performance and visual cultures.

The book features:

vintage texts by ORLAN and on ORLAN's work, including manifestos, key writings and critical studies

ten new contributions, responses and interviews by leading international specialists on performance and visual arts

over fifty images demonstrating ORLAN's art, with thirty full colour pictures

a new essay by ORLAN, written specially for this volume

a new bibliography of writing on ORLAN

an indexed listing of ORLAN's artworks and key themes.

Details

Title Orlan: A Hybrid Body of Artworks
Author Simon Donger (Editor); Simon Shepherd (Editor)
Binding Paperback
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 216
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Routledge
Publication date 2010
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780415562348 / 0415562341
Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
Dimensions 9.5 x 7.3 x 0.5 in (24.13 x 18.54 x 1.27 cm)
Category Art & Art Instruction
Library of Congress subjects Body art - France, Performance art - France
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010012029
Dewey Decimal Code 709.2

About the author

Simon Donger is a lecturer and a researcher in scenography and performance arts at Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London.

Simon Shepherd is Deputy Principal (Academic) and Professor of Theatre at Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. He is the author of Theatre, Body and Pleasure (Routledge 2006), and The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Theatre (Cambridge University Press 2009).

ORLAN is a multidisciplinary artist, living and working in Los Angeles, New York, and Paris. She is a professor at the cole Nationale Suprieure des Beaux-Arts in Cergy, France. She was formerly scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.

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