John P Bowles
Biographic Data
| ID | 351862 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John P Bowles |
| GIVEN NAMES | John P |
| FAMILY NAME | Bowles |
| SIGNATURE | BOWLES J P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Side by Side
Side by SideFriendship as Critical Practice in the Performance Art of Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger John P. Bowles (bio) Artists Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger commemorated their friendship in 2006 by making a collaborative video, Side by Side, surveying thirty years of creative dialogue and exchange. Reflecting on the importance of having supported each other’s work since they met in 1970s Los Angeles, the artists present a succession of …
Acting like a Man
Adrian Piper as African American Artist
African‐American artist Adrian Piper has repeatedly staged her own racial transformation in order to unsettle the racist attitudes of her artworks’ American viewers. Piper looks white but in her video installation Cornered, for example, she tells viewers, ”I’m black.” Over the course of the video the decision to call one’s self black or white becomes a moral issue rather than a simple matter of genetics or parentage. In the process, Piper casts t…
Forum
Unquestioned, whiteness provides the models by which the Western subject judges culture. As the norm, whiteness passes unremarked, perpetuating the canonical conventions and traditions that sustain its privilege;1 whiteness is assumed, while only otherness is pronounced.2 Any study of whiteness, therefore, has to consider the role it plays as the universalist measure against which all other identities become particular—made too particular to be a…
Forum
Unquestioned, whiteness provides the models by which the Western subject judges culture. As the norm, whiteness passes unremarked, perpetuating the canonical conventions and traditions that sustain its privilege;1 whiteness is assumed, while only otherness is pronounced.2 Any study of whiteness, therefore, has to consider the role it plays as the universalist measure against which all other identities become particular—made too particular to be a…
Adrian Piper as African American Artist
African‐American artist Adrian Piper has repeatedly staged her own racial transformation in order to unsettle the racist attitudes of her artworks’ American viewers. Piper looks white but in her video installation Cornered, for example, she tells viewers, ”I’m black.” Over the course of the video the decision to call one’s self black or white becomes a moral issue rather than a simple matter of genetics or parentage. In the process, Piper casts t…
Acting like a Man
Side by Side
Side by SideFriendship as Critical Practice in the Performance Art of Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger John P. Bowles (bio) Artists Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger commemorated their friendship in 2006 by making a collaborative video, Side by Side, surveying thirty years of creative dialogue and exchange. Reflecting on the importance of having supported each other’s work since they met in 1970s Los Angeles, the artists present a succession of …
Art (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · African american (1 work)