One of the first Swiss performance artists, Manon has fashioned a career for herself out of the identities of others. Whether exploring the limits of gender or the beauty of decay, Manon continually foregrounds the instability of place and self. Her project She Was Once MISS RIMINI is one of her most brutal and touching.
Here she literally depicts imagined futures for an aging beauty queen. Each exquisite image in this pictorial essay teases out the possible paths Miss Rimini - an alter-ego for Manon who "happened" upon a beauty pageant in the early 1970s and walked away with the crown - could have taken. A small-town diva?
A hypersensitive viola player? Perhaps even a psychiatric patient?
| ISBN: | 9783858817006 |
| Publication date: | 9th June 2008 |
| Author: | Manon |
| Publisher: | Scheidegger & Spiess an imprint of Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 128 pages |
| Series: | Scheidegger & Spiess |
| Genres: |
Individual artists, art monographs Performance art |
One of the first Swiss performance artists, Manon has fashioned a career for herself out of the identities of others. Whether exploring the limits of gender or the beauty of decay, Manon continually foregrounds the instability of place and self.
Manon features in the following genres: Individual artists, art monographs, Performance art
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Manon was written by Manon and published by Scheidegger & Spiess an imprint of Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag
Manon has 128 pages
Yes it is part of Scheidegger & Spiess series