Excellences and Perfections

Name: Excellences and Perfections
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ISBN: 9783791384184

ISBN-10: 379138418X

ISBN-13: 9783791384184

Edition: 2018

Authors: Amalia Ulman, Rï¿½zsa Farkas, Hito Steyerl, Natasha Stagg, Rob Horning

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This book presents the fiercely intelligent internet-based performance of artist Amalia Ulman, which she eventually revealed to be a critical artwork about issues of online identity. Amalia Ulman's performance "Excellences & Perfections", which unfolded on Instagram in 2014, follows an aspiring it-girl who undergoes a series of cosmetic surgeries and lifestyle changes to help jumpstart her career. For six months Ulman mesmerized her followers with nearly daily posts that documented a young woman trying on different personas in order to make her way in the world. Finally, the real Amalia Ulman revealed the fiction that she had created--a performance piece about identity, gender, class,…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2018
Publisher: Prestel Verlag GmbH & Co KG.
Publication date: 5/8/2018
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 220
Size: 8.00" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.420
Language: English

Natasha Stagg is a senior editor at the fashion magazines V and VMAN. She has received a Hopwood Award for nonfiction and the Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship and the James H. Robertson Award for fiction. Her essays have appeared in Dis magazine, Dazed, Kaleidoscope, Riot of Perfume, Sex, The Brooklyn Rail, and Bomb. She lives in Brooklyn.