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| Self-Portrait |
| 藝術家 arts / Jimmie Durham |
| 作品年份：1986 |
| 所屬類型：Plastic art |
| 作品出處：Cahan, Susan and Zoya Kocur eds. Contemporary Art and Multimedia Education. NY: Routledge, 1996. |
| 資料提供者：Kate Liu/劉紀雯; image credit - hermes.hrc.ntu.edu.tw |
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| Self Portrait, a flayed, full body nude, a red "skin," a
hide or hiding -- is a bitter and witty icon displayed o n the wall.?
As though illustrating?the dilemma of the `invented Indians," the
self-portrait is all surface.?Durham, who has proudly called himself
a "double Red," has branded a red star on his forehead, imprinted his
chest and thighs with fish and his ankle with fern.?He has?
sea shells for ears, bits of animal hide hair; one turquoise eye is just
to show a little "Indianness," and the feathers revealed by an open chest
cavity imply a certain "light-heartedness."?"I have 12 hobbies!??
11 house plants!?People like my poems," are among the "captions"
mapping such landmarks as an appendix scar, and defiantly "large and colorful"
genitals.?(Cahan 64) |
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