Body art -- France

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ORLAN: A Hybrid Body of Artworks is the first academic study of ORLAN's pioneering art. The book covers her entire career in performance and a range of other art forms. This single accessible overview of ORLAN's practices describes and analyses her various innovative uses of the…

"An in-depth exploration of the surgical performances of the artist Orlan. The French artist Orlan is infamous for performances during which her body is surgically altered. In nine such performance surgeries, features from Greek goddesses painted by Botticelli, Ge ́rard, Moreau, …

The French artist Orlan is infamous for performances during which her body is surgically altered. Responding to Orlan's definition of her performance surgeries as "carnal art," C. Jill O'Bryan considers how the artist's ever-fluctuating face questions idealized beauty and female…