Title: Embodied Avatars
Description: "Tracing a dynamic genealogy of performance from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, McMillian contends that black women artists practiced a purposeful self-objectification, transforming themselves into art objects. In doing so, these artists raised new ways to ponder the intersections of art, performance, and black female embodiment."
Subjects: African american women, African american artists, Feminism and art, Performance art, Feminism in art, African American women performance artists, Identity (Philosophical concept) in art