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Author Williams, Stephanie Sparling, author

Title Speaking out of turn : Lorraine O'Grady and the art of language / Stephanie Sparling Williams
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 228 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Introduction -- Mark my words -- "I am not a performance artist." -- Manifestos and mythmaking -- The diptych and "spatial narrative" -- Conclusion
Summary "Speaking Out of Turn is the first monograph dedicated to the forty-year oeuvre of feminist conceptual artist Lorraine O'Grady. Examining O'Grady's use of language, both written and spoken, Stephanie Sparling Williams charts the artist's strategic use of direct address--the dialectic posture her art takes in relationship to its viewers--to trouble the field of vision and claim a voice in the late 1970s to 1990s, when her voice was seen as "out of turn" in the art world. Speaking Out of Turn situates O'Grady's significant contributions within the history of American conceptualism and performance art, while also attending to the work's heightened visibility in the contemporary moment, revealing both the marginalization of O'Grady in the past and an urgent need to revisit her art in the present"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-214) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject O'Grady, Lorraine -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT O'Grady, Lorraine fast
Subject Conceptual art -- United States -- 20th century
Performance art -- United States -- 20th century
ART -- History -- Contemporary (1945- )
Conceptual art
Performance art
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520384224
0520384229