Eldridge, a biracial gay performance artist who proves her liveliest partner in deception. In this respect, he was a man of our time, a creature of the media and of virtual realities, an avatar walking the earth, a digitized being." "He reinvented himself again and again ceaselessly until the end. The artist known as Rune is a fabulist who ultimately tosses a monkey wrench into Harry's best-laid scheme by enjoying the spotlight too much, becoming "a bad-boy celebrity" who no longer wants to play her game. Anton Tish is a moody new-ager who threatens to crumble under public scrutiny. The male artists Harry gets to "sign" her installations couldn't be more different. Beyond such concerns, she is committed to revealing how differently art is received based on the gender of the artist: "how unconscious ideas about gender, race, and celebrity influence a viewer's understanding of a given work of art."Īnything goes. Overcoming a history of pandering to the men in her life, including her father, she is obsessed with exploding the conditions by which female artists are not accorded the same respect and attention as male artists, both in terms of critical attention and commercial sales.
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