{"product_id":"adrian-piper-race-gender-and-embodiment-9780822349204","title":"Adrian Piper: Race  Gender  and Embodiment","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1972 the artist Adrian Piper began periodically dressing as a persona called the Mythic Being  striding the streets of New York in a mustache  Afro wig  and mirrored sunglasses with a cigar in the corner of her mouth. Her Mythic Being performances critically engaged with popular representations of race  gender  sexuality  and class; they challenged viewers to accept personal responsibility for xenophobia and discrimination and the conditions that allowed them to persist. Pipers work confronts viewers and forces them to reconsider assumptions about the social construction of identity. Adrian Piper: Race  Gender  and Embodiment is an in-depth analysis of this pioneering artists work  illustrated with more than ninety images  including twenty-one in color. Over the course of a decade  John P. Bowles and Piper conversed about her art and its meaning  reception  and relation to her scholarship on Kants philosophy. Drawing on those conversations  Bowles locates Pipers work at the nexus of Conceptual and feminist art of the late 1960s and 1970s. Piper was the only African American woman associated with the Conceptual artists of the 1960s and one of only a few African Americans to participate in exhibitions of the nascent feminist art movement in the early 1970s. Bowles contends that Pipers work is ultimately about our responsibility for the world in which we live.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666083438645,"sku":"ByrdShop_0822349205","price":67.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780822349204.jpg?v=1782418616","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/adrian-piper-race-gender-and-embodiment-9780822349204","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}