Performing the Native Woman: Primitivism and Mimicry in Early Twentieth-Century Visual Culture
Alternate Title
[Antimodernism and Artistic Experience: Policing the Boundaries of Modernity]
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Author/Creator
Ruth B. Phillips
Description
Argues that during the period between the 1860s and the 1960s performance art offered the most favourable site for answering to stereotypes such as vanishing, pre-modern and degenerate races. Uses the careers of Ester Deer and Molly Nelson as examples.
Chapter from: Antimodernism and Artistic Experience: Policing the Boundaries of Modernity edited by Lynda Jessup