1st Edition
African American Artists Performing for the Camera After 1970 Against Transparency
By Martyna Ewa Majewska
Copyright 2025
222 Pages
20 Color & 42 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
222 Pages
20 Color & 42 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
222 Pages
20 Color & 42 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This study demonstrates how African American artists active since the 1970s have instrumentalized performance for the camera to intervene in existing representations of Black and Brown people in America and beyond.
Majewska argues that producing carefully designed photographs, films, and videos via performance became a key strategy for dismantling the conceptions of race and gender fixed by US... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Exaggerated Features: Adrian Piper on the Limits of Performativity
Chapter 2. The Outrageous Abstraction of Senga Nengudi’s Performance Photography
Chapter 3. Howardena Pindell’s and Maren Hassinger’s Subversive Video-Narcissism
Chapter 4. Feeble Monuments: David Hammons and Pope.L Underperforming for the Camera
Conclusion: Communication with Shadows
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Martyna Ewa Majewska is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, The University of Manchester
