SCHOR, Gabriele and Catherine MORRIS. Orlan: Six Decades.

(Berlin): Hatje Cantz, 2023.  First edition.  Hardcover.  28.5cm by 23.6cm.  306 pages.  A major monograph / catalogue that commemorates six decades of ORLAN’s radical art practice. Born in 1947, ORLAN has long used her body as raw material—through early performances, photographic works, surgical and technological interventions (known as l’Art charnel or “carnal art”)—to challenge conventional gender, identity, and iconography. This volume spans her earliest works from the 1960s to her most recent creations, including the “ORLAN‑OÏDE” robot (2018) and interactive “ORLAN avatars” that can be accessed via an augmented‑reality app. The book includes essays by Patricia Allmer, Elisabeth Bronfen, Sophie Duplaix, Donatien Grau, Roxana Marcoci, Catherine Millet, Camille Morineau, alongside interviews with ORLAN herself. In 1990, Orlan began The Reincarnation of Sainte-ORLAN. It involved a series of plastic surgeries through which the artist transformed herself into elements from famous paintings and sculptures of women. As a part of her “Carnal Art” manifesto, these works were filmed and broadcast in institutions throughout the world, such as the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Sandra Gehring Gallery in New York.  A very good copy in die-cut boards.  A very nice work on this little-known but important artist.